former high ranking military leaders. why did u. s. veterans turn their backs on democracy? and what does this mean for the upcoming next? the enemy within dogs to lie 12 on the w. the so fee was born in the body of a boy. but the ginger, she was assigned to birth, never felt right. as i started feeling something was wrong as a child and even that got much worse and keep it takes 3. and then once i left home, i made the decision i'm fee. now it's for now the old name no longer exists. so now we're accompanying the 30 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 that is being trans isn't really socially acceptable and good enough to get put down a lot of my stuff. they'll always be people who want to accept it. 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. at 1st i have a 1000 questions. how would it'll work to me? because it's not just about building yourself up and heading out some of the towns or shaming, wonder ones who stop living your life as trends steps. when the problems come on, going to be just the popular mind. 3 trans people from 3 generations lose the 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 there's no decided to have sex reassignment surgery corporation is due to start soon as often appears 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 to us. no compromise is kind of, i'll be seeing it through to the end doors. it's what i want. that's all the 30 year old finally has an appointment for her 1st of 2 operations. until now she's be making do with hormones, which is the 1st stage of the actual transition for most of those concerned the proximal, moist, crazy what the whole nodes 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. which office do?

they say things like, he's become turkey fan 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 the turn huge and the tools retain their ability to function. the necessary stretching needs have already arrived. ok hope code. i know it's getting serious cups really sinking in now. quite most of these i'm looking forward to this appointment. no, i'm looking forward to my vagina. it's good for him to be glad when it's all behind me. think of this for those of 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 don't think i to cope emotionally on my engine. why specializes? i'd probably cavan and blackout really quick. see, i'm awesome. and that's the last thing she wants. she'd have to wait months for another appointment. luka will be 16 in a few months. from a very early age, he felt you as a boy, born in a girl's body. as family have receive psychological counseling and they support this transition. in addition to that, i be here for about 8 to come. i didn't go through female 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 my outbox. it the testosterone won't because body increasingly masculine flashback. we started as

a comforting the 12 year old on camera back in 2019 luka was being treated by hormones specialist doctor of this tough experienced. and 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 the only thing you know community i'm leaving it here at last and it will be deleted. 2023. because once again, on his way to the endocrinologist, doctor, 1st all we specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents and handbook and view of the risky procedures is crucial for adult. traversed off the patients be thoroughly informed. the incidental from the incidence of trans boys has arisen significantly in recent years, quotes and 70 percent of young people who come to us are transported from early childhood. luca was a typical trans boy with typical boys, behavioral patterns,

son, 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 goes in. well, that's when the alarm bells go off, then my head by me and the alarm clock, and the expert works closely with psychologist and psychotherapists to reload snap judgments any last time. good luca and his mom are also accompanied through the process to the phoenix, passive farm. 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 front of because the older sister started puberty early on. and that's exactly what i wanted to spend my child out of everything he was expressing. what's your it was just boys clothes and actually his name. well dressed as

a short have intimate to go into the boys to him to, to let the i'm so they were all phases where you could see he was guessing happy mclaughlin had in the mid seventies. it was already clear to norah that she wanted to go through life as a woman. but it wasn't so many years later that she fully came out. today her trans identity is an important part of the 69 year old's life. just as i make sure that to speak which these people actually retain important to me relatively late in 2018, 2019 when retirement was approaching and i was planning this new phase of life for it. i wanted to become visible as of trying to pass and fish fuzzy as being visible domestically became linked with activism by that. so 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 berlin. 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 express or so that i know we all have tremendous self confidence and as far as mainstream society goes, we didn't see little, well they might have seen those, those freaks. but that wasn't all problem. it was that problem with this, right? so all as to, to 12, the pool things they've no idea um the, the costs for the biggest disadvantage in the seventy's was being excluded from the regular labor market. so it really was the case that trends women, mainly west of nice stuff. so with various options, sort of cool. so i just like to have continued in my day job. this stuff has been possible. i was working in the lodge bookshelf at the time, but there was no chance of stating that of a software from our 6 floors that supplied 6 years after her transition bureau

left the night life behind and no covertly trans started working as a secretary. she wrote several books as an offer critic today the active as aims 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 wrong body. and i say, 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 a decision being that not something. on the contrary, i felt i was given something in addition to my body's gender, different gender identity. so i embody familiarity 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 tomorrow, the trends will undergo sex reassignment surgery service. i'm supposed

to report some way that i can be i'm that's a good time for well and 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 fear shit, and van lever from man. so she's a very loving person. corporate from that. she's not my big sister just as i mean we've gone through everything together. this is joy, fear pretty much everything that's in this house. 05 here. i think she's my best friend to fees. main concern is to have a party that sexually female or she also hoops the upcoming medical procedure will lead to more acceptance in everyday life. somebody's displaced that final and had it so, so those, you know, the every day instances where, yes, your try me,

i'm in the most a woman. you'll never be a woman. and to find a bit of makeup plan to make one on the quotes. as i've heard a tool i think is once i've had surgery, this trends thing is done with the good to me. so that, that is, even if a lot of people will probably still say, i'm transgender and confident, that step is, doesn't need us. who am i to me, the word transgender, or trends. one to exist anymore, accepted on the summer in the afternoon to feed, meets her surgeon, professor has do you have any questions before the operation tomorrow, how the i'm really worried about being able to feel the need of how difficult is i can best be. am i well, we've asked our patients about that after the operation. when that is phones with us, the about 96 percent say they had some feeling unlikely to risk sampling and put them helping dr. can't around 90 percent say they were capable of oregon and i felt i've

got the most face and okay, that's reassuring. there are various theories and why increasing numbers of people are identifying as trends. the doctor has a simple explanation and thoughts funds which 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. and so i also had to learn how to deal with the topic of video. i think social acceptance has improved and people are more informative. think about them. that's why there are more people who can find the words or how they feel it and can look as though it's a new school where he has to repeat his high school diploma. so he todd, how was school? good. yes, that's that. okay. okay, what time look, our newest, there's prejudice against trans people. mentioned so enough english in public. i'd

never say i'm trans. i didn't say openly at school 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 multiple bullet 12 and all that i was going to. i'm lucca already experienced this in 2019. when he came out in his film the you'll have to take test of june for the rest of his life. does not bother him. shuffle as small as it was to. so can 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 me, it's done 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 in these for look at the moment is all about his

identity and having the right body body. he's becoming more and more comfortable with my nice in my ice hockey team, some notes and sometimes you know, concerned it's no more commit 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, isn't because light flashed back back in 2019. when luca was 12 company into training, there will 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 knight 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. at 1st i tried to ignore the looks, but at some point i actually source out eye contact. i wanted to be looked at the quote and gender reassignment surgery was never an option for the trends with nor i loves her body exactly as it is the finished dollars on to fix been out 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 mindful these number by entering. this is always labeled in congress going as if the account be female press is male sexual characteristics, respect. i don't see any contradiction and not the see if others see as well. so that'll be the appropriate and not mine's, especially since the info for the money is mine's 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 to see i never really played the exotic role with all my different i felt that i needed to live a normal life and that was always the goal that's different as i am, that should always be no sooner mazda or the mazda, and i'd like to quit community to be seen, to see all the by mainstream society, but rather as a positive society, that's where we belong. in a multi faceted persons on lifestyle. as normal as any of them. and i'm really surprised that o d of 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, i'm already terrified. so as to don't worry, it will be fine. now 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. 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 fine, i'll try it out now from now, we've been here about 2 or 3 years again and already made all these preparations, the registration, the procedure waiting list and so on. and now the time has come. now we hear now it's plain via respect to the operation. how will it go?

well, everything be intact through dog. well, that'd be feeling down there. so that's the biggest thing to 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 so that we know from the follow up surveys of our patients, that there are also holistic changes in that open. and even if only the genitals have been operated on it, obviously a lot happens before surgery and far from the essential things happen before the coming out, the psychological aspect. and also the hormonal situation. the surgery is only a small part in the front, but it still gives another boost to the holistic female feeling vipers him for the 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 with his grandmother remembers his childhood. it's a fun these feeling when you 1st have a go on and to do the switch. he has style the pre existence a long time, but then you just accept him and that's it. he's a boy, i spend the rest of this in the past just because i might have to see somebody split up by the back. and it wasn't something you gave much thought to just in vic, it was more of a gradual process development. it's one of my part. i saw him as a very strong person because he always knew who he was. despite the obstacles in his way. of course the will always setbacks. what you thought to yourself is a big sister. i'd love to give that person a piece of my mind for me because it was hurtful. of course, i love to touch on what were the setbacks

among other things, pulling it school, the flashbacks lucas group. ultimately i put the trends in a silver item 4 years ago, get spots. so it does. how do i to assign him to comp time, so a few people, so my film done and they handled it really well on the edge of them. i know mr. kind of, i asked me of course, and then i thought i shouldn't deny it or anything to gain just admitted openly how do you have on the team? but when we talked about it a little, it was a huge relief done. could be that it kind of phone to bone at the noon of canal i prefer being around people who know about it. and then the ones who don't submitted on the luca has achieved a lot. the issue of sex reassignment surgery is still on the table as being fund discontinuance of chance of hobbies. 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 thing i'm looking at. 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 think us to many of know those friends identify as clear body and as one of the the younger trans man comes from a different generation to know they are both familiar with the problems based by trans people. he's crime against minorities has been on the rise for years to such image. and so if you meet just it stops on line and social media, then the verbal harassment spills out onto the street to spend a tons, volume, and physically volume and speaking of and trans people are a prime targets from the coffee 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 cuz there's times been when people don't believe that i'm trans and i can be cove utley and anonymously trans anywhere if i want to. but i also think it's important to take his stand now and then and say, i'm trans by the way, many as long as people are still being beaten off out that it's important to draw attention to ent, profile facts and some friends are concerned about current political discussions which poetry trends people is choosing their gender and when and then manipulating children are feeling an instrument education in schools is of course super important because otherwise trans children will be bullied and marginalized. then come when parents come and say don't drive on children. crazy. yeah, the children can't be made crazy. sometimes discussions on needed, assigning,

and the parents probably don't want to look at it to them that so they say leave on children alone. and then i mean, if a child is unsure about themselves, then you should discuss it when they come to flash. okay, let the van as a ton, we soon become friends by invitations listed on this. this idea that of times people are constantly being talks of allison reported on always presents in the media. that could be this copy types of things that would, you does become trends by reading or watching something online. that's just not the reality for an excuse anything. it's the, it's got me and i never struggled with being trans note for a moment and said on the contrary, discovering my translate, density is the best thing that could have happened to me. and i 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 trend as excited for that was he's such a frank foot, boy, it's all football club. so united under fits never being part of your wells and you know nothing about it. really we have very different play, so i'm going to keep it to my little see create guidelines as a sub how i don't know what i do not, or that me as if he doesn't have lots of people saying i should tell him that i'll just say don't tell him what was that came out some other way. does kabbage mean i thought about that? my number or to help him then he'd probably ask, why didn't you tell me your thoughts for us to reset this month and 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 some of the hard to, i mean these days anything goes, nothing's up,

norman anymore. no, i'm on section of that one. 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. if someone asked me now and said, i'm sure what, what do you do? my tip would be listening 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 and not can go wrong. yeah, because much math. so subordinate, i didn't regret a single. thank you skin nothing. it tool converts to us, you know, to go to the,

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