its time the day our peers and rivals, with one daring goals to help smart nature, the more likes watching it on youtube dw documentary, the 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 that got much worse and keep it takes 3. and then once i left home, i made the decision. i'm so fee. now it's for now the old name, their lunch breaks, they have not assessed math. 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 of the term sense to me. so this 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. and at 1st i have a 1000 questions. how would it will work to me? it is because it's not just about building yourself up and heading out some of the towns or shaming ones, the ones who stop living your life as trends steps when the problems come on, going to be just the popular mind. 3 trends, people from 3 generations lose the how do they want to live? these are their stories, the or

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. corporation is due to start soon as often. okay. i've been 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 know, compromise this 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 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. which office do?

they say things like, if they come to the famine and you look at the stream, the good. it gives me a real boost on johnson. 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. hope college. now 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 and i'll be glad when it's all behind me think i'm yes, 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 pascal would be keeping her company on the way to the university hospital. in essence, the next step is 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 good. see, i'm awesome. and that's the last thing she wants. she'd have to wait months for another appointment as lucca will be 16 in a few months. from a very early age, he felt he was a boy born in that girl's bounty. as family have receive psychological counseling and they support his transition. in addition to vibration, prof, i take the com, i didn't go through a female puberty because it's what i was put on. hold on blockers. so 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 will make his body increasingly masculine flashback. we start with accompanying the 12 year old

on camera back in 2019 luca was being treated by hormones. specialists don't serve as 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 leo needed, you know community. i'm leaving it here at last and it will be deleted. 2023 luca is once again on his way to the end, the chronologist doctor. first off. we specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents and handbook, and view of the risky procedures is crucial for dr. first health. the patients be thoroughly informed the incidental from the incidents of transport as has risen 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 voice behavioral patterns on that. i'm much more

confident with that, and then when somebody suddenly discovers this trans issued 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 in the organization. well, that's when the alarm bells go off in my head. so i mean the alarm clock in the expert works closely with psychologist and psychotherapists to reload snap judgments. luca and his mom are also accompanied through the process type of phoenix by 5th farner. i had a lot of doubt, especially when it started with the woman blow, cuz we didn't start with the test just around which we gave home and brokers quite handy on it. and funny because the oldest 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, i'm going to going to the boys to him to,

to let the i'm so they will face is where you could see he was getting happier. mclaughlin, she had in the mid seventies. that was already clear 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. just as i make sure that to speak for steve actually retain important to me relatively late in 20182019 when retirement was approaching. and i was planning this new phase of life, florida. and i wanted to become visible as of trying to pass and fish positive 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 of shit 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. 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 a to 12, the pool things they've no idea um to 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, but of course 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 so that there was no chance of staying that of a if i 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 prejudices about trans people, the cloud or to i think a lot of people outsourcing 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 solve both e and we can never leave as a cub, i've never had the feelings that i'm a decision being that mark something. on the contrary, i felt i was given something in addition to my body's gender, different gender identity. so i embody femininity 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 with the trends when will undergo sex reassignment surgery

firms, i'm supposed to report some where i am, 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 worried for fear shit and leave her for managed. sophie's a very loving person, corporate from that she's not my big is this to them. so we've gone through everything together. joy, fear, pretty much everything that's in itself. apply sir. i think she's my best friend to fees. main concern is to have a body that sexually female, but she also hopes the upcoming medical procedure will lead to more acceptance in everyday life. somebody's display stuff, i don't want her to. so those, you know,

if the every day instances where, yes, your try me, i'm in the most a woman, you'll never be a woman kind of find a bit of makeup plan to make one call. it says, 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 or do you have any questions before the operation tomorrow, how the i'm really worried about being able to feel the need of either because i've best be on my own. well, we've asked our patients about that after the operation, when that is phones with us, the about 96 percent said they had some feeling the quite a risk compliment from them helping dr. can't around 90 percent say they were capable of oregon and i thought, oh gosh, most face and okay,

that's reassuring. there are various theories or 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 over the, at the time. i think social acceptance has improved and people are more informants . think about them, that's why there are more people who can find a 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 he todd, how was school? good, yes, that's that. okay, now if i 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 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 was going to, i'm luca 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. smile. 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 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 the 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 and because light flashback back in 2019, when luka was 12 company to 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 door has committed to the rights of trans people. a loss of her self confidence stands from 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. and from that 1st i tried to ignore the looks. but at some point, i actually saw out eye contact. i wanted to be looked at the cook and gender reassignment surgery was never an option for the trans women, nor i loves her body exactly as it is the finished or something. i've been else 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 bind to me. this is always labeled in congress, going as if the comp, the female presses with male sexual characteristics, respect my, i don't see any contradict and not the see if others see as well. so that'll be the appropriate. i'm not minds, especially since the info for the 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 the feeling of being amongst equals try to say i never really played the exotic role with all my different. i felt that i needed to live a normal life name as 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 cultures and societies, that's where we belong in a multi faceted persons 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 for short is a fee hardly slept a wink. he can do this

so so i'm already terrified so as to don't worry, it will be fine. you'll wake up later and thank you finally. so you've been called great. he'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 the final try out there from now we will hear about 2 or 3 years ago and already made all of these preparations and the registration, the procedure waiting list and so on. and now the time is come. now we here the size. yes, no, it's plain view here. respect to the operation. how will it go?

well, everything be intact through dog. well that'd be feeding down death star gardens. that's. that's the biggest thing to fees. operation which is fully covered by health insurance proceeds without complications. and the doctor's prognosis is also favorable. the patient has a good chance of filling sex life and we know from the follow up surveys of our patients that there are also holistic changes in that opening, 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 of that. and also the hormonal situation, if you look at the surgery, is only a small part in the front. but it still gives another boost to the holistic female feeling vipers him from summer or 2023. look a has graduated from high school and has already been accepted for an

apprenticeship as a piano. mr. 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 praises and so on. but then you just accept him and that's it. he's a boy. and the rental isn't the pos just, i'm because i'm not sure i'm not just figured out by the best buy list and it wasn't something you gave much thought to just in vic, it was the gradual process development. it's 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 that will always setbacks. what you thought to yourself as a big sister. i'd love to give that person a piece of my mind for me because it was hurtful. of course, as i know, just touched on what were the setbacks

among other things pulling at 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 cook top? so a few people, so my film done and they handled it really well on the edge of them. i know mr. can i ask me, of course, on that i thought i shouldn't deny it or anything to gain just admitted openly how do you have on with them? but then we talked about it a little. it was a huge release. them could be that they kind of phone to bone at the noon. ok, now i prefer being around people who know about it and then the ones who don't submitting luka has achieved a lot. the issue of sex reassignment surgery is still on the table as being fun. this consists of tents of how it is 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, hateful. not say you don't rush into anything. can you give us that? so that sounds think us many of know those friends identify as clear body and as one of the younger trans man comes from a different generation to know they are both familiar with the problem space by trans people he's crime against minorities has been on the rise for years, in the sense of your, me just it stops online and social media here. 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 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 trans 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 discussions which poetry trends, people as choosing their gender and when and then manipulating children are feeling an industry 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 job children can be made crazy. sometimes discussions on needed,

assigning some the parents probably don't want to look at it to them that so they say the voucher alternate alone. and then i mean, if a child is unsure about themselves, then you should discuss it when they come to flash. okay. and then 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 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, not for a moment. 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 that might sound stupid, but it's truth. so almost

a year after her sex reassignment fee is on her way to her hair dresser to get here extensions. and there's news. the 31 year old is in love for new partner, doesn't know that so fee, as trends as excited for that was he's such a frank foot, boy, it's all football collapse 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 my little see create if the homeless as a sub house. i don't know what all i do not, or that me as if he doesn't have 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 that's happened to me. i thought about that. my number or to help him then he'd probably all. why didn't you tell me your cell wrestle except 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,

nothings up normally that email normal. i'm not sectional going on. okay. i'm happy for you. enjoy it. you never know what's going to happen these days a minute. well, if he signs outs, and 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 membership. if someone asked me now and said, i'm sure what would you do? my tip would be listened to you in a south. so can somebody 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, so it's also very painful, a little can go wrong of it as much maps and subordinates. i didn't regret a single, thank you skin, nothing. it tool kind of service. you know, what got to the

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