Per Halvor Kaja Mostad (born 1967)

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Mostad identifies as both a transvestite and a transgender person. He lives on and owns Jahren farm in Stavern, which also serves as a gathering place for transgender people from across the country.

In the interview, Mostad shares how he was only four or five years old when he began to feel that he was more than just the boy he was defined as. For many years, he lived in secrecy before beginning to tell the world who he truly was—a journey that culminated in a public coming-out interview in the magazine Det Nye in 1999.

Mostad was also active in the organization Forbundet for transpersoner i Norge (FTPN), and he reflects on that period in the interview.

An excerpt from the life history interview is featured in the video window below, where he talks about how he balances his two identities, and how it all began.

The full interview is available at Skeivt arkiv, part of the Special Collections at the University Library of Bergen. There, you can also view a joint interview with him and his husband, Per Andreas Kjeldsberg. Kjeldsberg has also been interviewed separately.

Skeivt arkiv met Per Halvor Kaja Mostad at his farm in Stavern in October 2017.