Junior, 22, Vaiusu Uta: 

“I think that fa’afafines should be called “she”. Because they want to be females, that’s their perspective. They do their makeup and dress like women, so if they would like so, I suppose we can also address them as “she”.

Pati Tauda, 35, Apia: 

They should be called “he”. God only created man and woman, there’s nothing in between.

Tua’au Pati, 67, Letogo: 

They have to be addressed to as “he”. I remember that in the 1980’s, the government passed an act which did forbid men to wear the clothes of a female. What is happening now is that there are way too many fa’afafines in Samoa, because our Prime Minister has become their chairman. This disappoints me, because there’s only husband wife. The holy book does not say: and then, god created fa’afafine. It’s just not right, it’s stupid”.

Toni Amoa, 70, Samusu: 

I prefer to call them “he” rather than something else. It’s simply what they were meant to be, so why should that be changed?

Fa’aa’oa’o Iakopo, 45, Saleimoa:

We should call them “he”. There is no such word as fa’afafine. There’s only ‘tama’ meaning boy and ‘teine’, meaning girl, that’s it. Anything is rubbish.

Eme Letasi, 19, Laulii: 

We need to address fa’afafines as “he”. Anything else is a sin in the eyes of our Lord since He created only man and woman. We do not have the right to change this.