"I will never hide my past": a guy reveals his gender change against any prejudice
Feeling in perfect harmony with your body and mind is never an easy task, especially if you grow up in a context in which you perceive more and more that the body with which you were born does not belong to you, and you can't identify with gender assigned to you by dint of your biology. In fact, there are many people who do not feel male or female despite the body they are born into, and contemporary medicine has gradually facilitated the transition of gender for those who have felt the need.
via Infobae
it's a great step forward for those who don't feel at ease in their own bodies and who could never feel this way, fighting every day against discrimination, selfishness and many prejudices. This happened to Nicole Romano, born an Argentine girl who for 20 years had always known in his heart that he felt like a man rather than a woman. During his adolescence, Nicole always tried to dress rather sportily, always avoiding wearing typically feminine clothes and makeup, even going out with some guys, when in reality he liked women.
When their parents realized that their daughter did not feel like a fully-fledged woman, they brutalized him so emotionally that Nicole at the age of 18 began suffering from anorexia nervosa, and then from a severe form of cardiac arrhythmia. which forced him to undergo surgery.
At the age of 20, after a successful heart operation, Nicole disappeared, and Nicolàs was "born"; everything had changed, and he wanted to change things once and for all in a concrete way. And so, after the surgery, he gradually decided to start treatment for gender change. Nicolàs also underwent a mastectomy to remove his breasts and all that was necessary to complete the gender transition with time and with a lot of patience and courage.
Of his transformation, Nicolàs now says: "I will never hide my past, because my past is part of who I am today. But I also say that in those photos you will see a very feminine Nicole who looks happy. Well, the truth is that I wasn't happy at all. "
After his transition, Nicolàs has gained a better relationship with himself, with the world around him and also with his father, who years earlier had mocked and opposed him, and who has now apologized to him.
When, on the other hand, will a society that is still too bigoted apologize for the lack of consideration and the many prejudices that trans people experience through their stories of transformation? Acceptance can't come soon enough.
