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boy, but the ginger she was assigned at 1st never felt right. as i started feeling something was wrong as a child, and that got much worse and keep it takes 3. and then once i left home, i made the decision i'm fee. now the old name no longer exists and i'm get dismissed. now. we're accompanying the 13 year old on her journey to her new self look, almost 16 is trans. he experienced diverse reactions when he 1st came out from sense to me. so this thing trying to isn't really socially acceptable and good enough to get put down a lot of my stuff. they'll always be people who once accepted it's almost half a century since nora discovered her true identity or transition to a new self began in west berlin. in the 1970s, if i guess at 1st i have a 1000 questions. how would it will work?
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just because it's not just about building yourself up and heading now, some of the towns are shaming ones, the ones who stop living your life as trend steps. when the problems come along, as if you try to put him on 3 trans people from 3 generations lose them. how do they want to live? these are their stories, the is a fee lives near frank foot. the cashier has been living as a woman for several years and has no decided to have sex reassignment surgery. you operation is due to start soon. as often, opiates must be waiting almost exactly 6 months. my operation date. and 6 weeks ago, i called the letter saying the operation can go ahead. i'm going through with that just to us, no compromises kind of, i'll be seeing it through to the end doors. it's what i want to south. the
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30 year old finally has an appointment for her 1st of 2 operations. until now she's be making due with hormones, which is the 1st stage of the actual transition for most of those concerned the proximal, moist, crazy what the whole names do. i've been taking them for 4 years now and then lots has changed and there's a point where i don't see it myself anymore. without the steam. they say things like, he's become turkey famine and you look stream the good. it gives me a real boost on it, got soon for the 1st few weeks after the operation, it will be up to 0 fee to make sure that turn huge and the tools retain their ability to function the necessary stretching aids have already arrived. ok hope college now it's getting serious. it becomes really sinking in now quite most of these. i'm looking forward to this appointment. no,
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i'm looking forward to my vagina. it's good for him to be glad when it's all behind me sent them. yes. those are fees be managing by herself for years. she certainly doesn't want to spend the days before and after the medical procedure fluid her best friend pascall will be keeping her company on the way to the university hospital. and as of may have happened, it's really important to me that my best friend is coming on because he's being that from the beginning, i didn't think i had to cope emotionally on my end. small sizes, i'd probably k vin and blackout would see on my home. and that's the last thing she wants. she'd have to wait months for another appointment to lucca will be 16 in a few months. from a very early age he felt he was a boy born in a girl's bounty. as family have receive psychological counseling and they support
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this transition. in addition to that, i be here for about 8 to come. i didn't go through the mail puberty because it's i was put on hold on block as soon as it started and that stopped everything. and then after about 3 years, i started taking testosterone from the to a very low doses, so that i could grow, might have boxes the test of through and won't. because body increasingly masculine flashback, we started the comforting, the 12 year old on camera back in 2019 luka was being treated by hormones specialist doctor of us. tough spanish them. why don't you stand over here and we'll see how tall you are. it's an important stage and lucas journey was the name change. oh, my old id card still says leo needed, you know, clearly i'm leaving it here at last and it will be deleted. 2023
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luca is once again on his way to the end, the chronologist doctor. first, all we specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents and handbook and view of the risky procedures is crucial for adult, traverse tough that the patients be thoroughly informed. the incidental from the incidence of transport as has arisen significantly in recent years, quotes and 70 percent of young people who come to us are transport okay from early childhood. kind of lucca was a typical trans boy for the typical boyish behavioral patterns on that. i'm much more confident with that and then when somebody suddenly discovers this trans issue during puberty at the age of 12 or 13 and comes to me saying, i saw this youtube video and then everything was clear to me video because then well that's when the alarm bells go up in my head by me and the alarm clock, and the expert works closely with psychologist on site, the therapist to reload snap judgments. good
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luca and his mom are also accompanied through the process to see that's fine, that's fine. i had lots of doubts, especially when it started with the woman blow, cuz we didn't start with the testosterone, which we gave home and broke us quite early on in funding because the older sister started puberty early on. that's exactly what i wanted to spend my child out of everything he was expressing. what's your it was just points close and i'm actually his name. well dressed as a short have, i'm going to need to go into the boys toilet to let the i'm so they will face is where you could see he was guessing happy mclaughlin had in the mid seventies. that was all ready cleared to nora, that she wanted to go through life as a woman. but it wasn't too many years later that she fully came out. today her trans identity is an important part of the 69 year old's life. this is amy trinity speech, which these people actually retain important to me relatively late in 2018,
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2019 when retirement was approaching and i was planning this new phase of life for it. i wanted to become visible as a trans pass and discovery added being visible or domestically became linked with activism. by vast, i mean something up for the interests of trans people because it's even, this is just to educate mainstream society and that's very important to me and it's making my last stage of life feel quite meaningful names that i'm going to present once. and nora was 19 when she moved to west fairly soon she was working in a night club, the legendary shave whom you have they are surrounded by other trans people. the young woman is freely expressed or so. yeah, i know we all have tremendous self confidence and as far as mainstream society goes, we didn't see little, well they might've seen is those freaks. but that wasn't all problem because it was that problem with this, right? so all as the tooth was to pull things they've no idea of the cost for the biggest
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disadvantage in the seventy's was being excluded from the regular labor market. so it really was the case about trends women mainly left at night stuff. so with various options but of cool site of lights have continued in my day job. this stuff has been possible. i was working in the lodge books off at the time so that there was no chance of staying that of a software from our 6 floors that supplied 6 years after her transition bureau left the night light behind and no covertly trans started working as a secretary she wrote several books as an appropriate day to day, the active, the themes to dispel pressure. this is about trans people. closer to i think most of people are starting from a false premise when they say that trends means living in the role but the high. so i've never had that feeling. i can use it for all the body we have and the solid body. and we can never leave it as a cub. i've never had the feelings that i am
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a deficient being that much something on the contrary, i felt i was given something in addition to my body's gender, a different gender identity. so i am body humidity and masculinity at the same time . i mean, i think that's pure luxury. 400 offices. it's october 2022. so fees on the way to a new body to model the trends when will undergo sex reassignment surgery firms, i'm supposed to report some last time that they type around just a moment here at s and university hospital sex reassignment surgery for trans women has been a routine operation for years. the fees, best friend pascall, who has traveled with her for emotional support is still laurie's field shit and sadly refer, managed sophie's a very loving person,
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corporate from that. she's not my big sister to them. we've gone through everything together. joy fear pretty much everything that's himself applies here. i think she's my best friend of the fees. main concern is to have a body that sexually female or she also hopes the upcoming medical procedure will lead to more acceptance in everyday life. se display stuff when i had it so. so those not the every day instances where yes, your try me, i'm in the, the most a woman on the fuel net would be a woman. and to find a piece of makeup plan to make one on the of course, as i've heard a tool, i know because once i've had surgery, then this trends thing is done with the good to misled that this, even if a lot of people will probably still say i'm transgender and constant. that step is doesn't need us. who am i to me? the word trans agenda or trends wouldn't exist anymore. it's listed on the summer.
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in the afternoon to feed meets her surgeon, professor has or do you have any questions before the operation tomorrow, how the i'm really worried about being able to feel this because i can best be on my own. well, we've asked our patients about that after the operation. and that is phones with us, the about 96 percent say they had some feeling the quite a risk sampling infinitum helping tactic and around 90 percent say they were capable of oregon. and i problem, i've got the most recent. okay, that's reassuring there are various theories are why increasing numbers of people are identifying as trends. the doctor has a simple explanation and thoughts on such on 20 years ago, many people didn't even realize that this existing comp, i myself had little or no contact with it before i came here to the clinic 15 years ago. so i also had to learn how to deal with the topic of video. i think social acceptance has improved and people are more inform me to think about them. that's
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why there are more people who can find the word or how they feel it and look as though it's a new school where he has to repeat his high school diploma. so we todd, how was school? good. yes, that's that. okay, now and what time look our newest, there's prejudice against trans people. when it gets to enough english in public, i'd never say i'm trans. didn't say openly at school and please you just have to be careful who you talked with most people. it's better not to say anything because once you cite you'll the outside and then your mom. i'm bullet 12 and all that. i list the ones on luca already experienced this in 2019. when he came out in his film the you'll have to take this stuff through and for the rest of his life does not bother him. smile,
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it's close to us. ok, i have asked me to us and i have to take my asthma spray every morning or so, and it's exactly the same, but it's just normal for managed on. so i can't imagine life without it not. and it just upsets. if i stop taking it, everything would reverse in my body, and i'd go through female puberty truth and just like a supervisor, it's on. and then you certainly don't want to not do that. no, i don't want that nice for luca at the moment is all about his identity and having the right body body. he's becoming more and more comfortable with my nice looking, one company, my ice hockey team, some notes and sometimes you know, concerned it's no more for me to shower with the team. just in my underway is not a problem to help and, and i think it's really great how they show consideration for making this name. ice hockey is a constant and because light flashback back in 2019 we looked at
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was 12 companies him to training. there won't be much time for sport over the next few months. luca has to concentrate on school and leaving exams . the doors committed to the rights of trans people. a loss of her self confidence den some her job in the seventy's, the cloakroom attendant at the berlin bay club. she will meet her at this time. of course there was a sudden and security in the beginning, especially going to work in the evening and coming back home in the morning. i'm from at 1st. i tried to ignore the looks, but at some point when i actually saw out i contact, i wanted to be looked at the cook and gender reassignment surgery was never an option for the trends with nor i loves her body exactly as it is
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the finished dollars on that makes pin house on the street, and it's unlikely any one would think, i know some women open, but when i'm standing naked in front of the mirror, i know my body's not binding me. this is always labeled in congress, going as if the comp, the female presses with male sexual characteristics. facebook, i don't see any contradiction, not the see if others see as well. so that'll be the problem. not mine's, especially since the info. see him on his minds. john still feels connected to the queer community tonight, so to are these days where she enjoys them all, the more of this feeling of being amongst equals try i was the i never really played the exotic role with all my different. i felt that i needed to live a normal life name. that was always the goal is different as i am, that should always be new tournaments or did us. and most of the reason i'd like
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to quit community to still be seen this the although by mainstream society, but rather as a cultures and societies, that's where we belong in a multi faceted percent on lifestyle as normal as any of them. so nobody really surprised that all the div gender reassignment has come for so fee the night a short is a fee hardly slept a wink. we can do this so so i'm already terrified. so don't worry, it will be fine. you'll wake up later and think the final so you've been called right there for she's been wasting more than 6 months for this moment.
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you'll hear on june. i'm here. now her best friend has to wait 2 hours. that's how long the operation usually takes. the final try out there from now we were here about 2 or 3 years ago and already made all these preparations and the registration, the procedure waiting list and so on. and now the time has come. now we hear well now it's plain via respect to the operation. how will it go? well, everything be intact through dog. well, that'd be feeding down there. right. so that's the biggest thing. so fees, operation which is fully covered by health insurance proceeds without complications . and the doctors, prognosis is also favorable. the patient has a good chance of a feeling sex life if we know from the follow up surveys of our patients, that there are also holistic changes within that open. and even if only the
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genitals have been operated on it, obviously a lot happens before surgery are far from the essential things happen before the coming out, the psychological aspect. and also the hormonal situation. let's see, what is it? the surgery is only a small part enough one, but it still gives another boost to the holistic female feeling vipers, hampton. summer, 2023. luca has graduated from high school and has already been accepted for an apprenticeship as a piano meeker. well done on your graduation dining for his grandmother remembers his childhood. it's a funny feeling when you 1st have a go on and to do the switch. he has style, the pray hicks and so on. but then you just accept him and that's it. he's a boy and the wrestling isn't the pos just i'm because uh huh. bye. i might have to some, some of the split out by the basketballs and it wasn't something you gave much thought
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to just. and it was more of a gradual process of development. as one of my part, i saw him as a very strong person because he always knew who he was. but despite the obstacles in his way, of course the boy setbacks, where you thought to yourself is a big sister. i'd love to give that person a piece of my mind because it was her full of course, but i don't take effect to touch on what were the setbacks? among other things pulling at school. the flashbacks lucas group ultimately input being trans and a silver item. 4 years ago get spots. so with us, how do i to mine from the cook top to a few people so my film done and they handled it really well on the edge of them. i know mitch can i ask me, of course, on the night thoughts i shouldn't deny it or anything to gain just admitted openly
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. we talked about it a little. it was a huge relief time convenience and it kind of foamed a bone at the noon. ok now like with that being around people who know about it and then the ones who don't submitted another luka has achieved a lot. the issue of sex reassignment surgery is still on the table as being fund discontinuing. so it's definitely good to have the option because then you can decide for yourself whether you want it or not. satellite kind. of course, you can't do it to the 18 and i think that's a good sample on your body has to be mature, of course. and it gives you time to think again, i called and i say you don't rush into anything. can you give us that? so that sounds he goes many of know, most friends identify as clear body and as one of the the younger trans man comes right, different generation to know that they are both familiar with the problem space by
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trans people. he's crime against minorities has been on the rise for years to set images of to meet just just stops on line and social media. then the verbal harassment spills out on to the streets to spend the tons volume and physically volume and trans people are a prime targets from the call from being visible and taking a stand, a balancing act for many of those affected because like everyone else, they also need privacy, anonymity, let me go to office because there's tons been, people don't believe that i'm trans and i can be covertly and anonymously trans anywhere if i want to. but i also think it's important to take a scan now and then and say, i'm trends by the way, many as long as people are still being beaten off out, then it's important to draw attention to ent, profile facts and some friends are concerned about current political
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discussions which betray trends, people as choosing their gender on the when and then manipulating children. the y'all feeling an interesting education in schools is of course, super important because otherwise trans children will be bullied and marginalized. when parents come and say, don't drive on children crazy. um, yeah, the children can be made crazy. sometimes discussions on needed aside from the parents, probably don't want to look at the internet so they say, leave on children alone. i mean, if a child is unsure about themselves, then you should discuss it when they come to flash. okay, let his van as a ton, we soon become friends by invitations listed on this. this idea that of times people are constantly being talked about and reported on, always presence in the media. that could be this copycats offense or would you does become trends by reading or watching some thing online. that's just not the reality for an excuse anything. it's
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the, it's got me and i never struggled with being trans, not for a moment. and on the contrary, discovering my trans identity is the best thing that could have happened to me by truly i'm an absolutely happy trans posts and something might sound stupid, but it's true. so almost a year after her sex reassignment fee is on her way to her hair dresser to get here extensions. there's news. the 31 year old is in love for new partner, doesn't know that so fee is trans asking for that will be such a frank said, boy, it's all the football clubs united. and if it's never been part of your wells and you know nothing about it, really we have very different play. so i'm going to keep it to mind, little see creative guidelines as
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a sub hauled. i don't know what all i do not or that me and the feeder already. lots of people say i should tell him that i'll just say, don't tell him what if it came out some other way. the establishment i thought about that my number or the job and then he'd probably all why didn't you tell me your cell wrestle except as some of them i did bring it up in directly and the values are state. and i said, you might imagine you met someone like that who was a man before the heart. i mean these days anything goes, nothing's abdomen anymore normal. i'm not sectional going on. i'm happy for you. enjoy it. you never know what's going to happen these days. a minute, well, if he finds out then that's how it is. but then if he rejects me, i'll know for sure. it was, it was a big line for trends. people like sophie, there's no one right way. there are lots of different options on the memberships you must have someone else to me now and said,
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i'm sure what, what do you do? my tip would be listened to you in the south that look inside yourself to see what you really want. okay, so that i could just say do it, but then you might end up on happy because it really is a major intervention. so it's also very painful. a little can go wrong now because much match. so subordinate, i didn't regret a single effect. you skin. nothing it tool kind of similar. there's no damage to the it's been touch possible my son was to. 2 the
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