Lara's chest is flat.
He went to ballet class that day, locked the toilet and took off his clothes after the end, I just found out about it. It's not the kind of level that girls laugh at themselves every day, but even the A Cup is far behind, like a 12- or 13-year-old boy.
He slid down, not wearing underwear, only tape was wrapped between his legs, and he had to get his hands wet to peel it off, and the tugging was painful.
Later , when he woke up from his sleep one day, he looked down and found that he was greeted with a morning wood. He pushed up his pajama pants like a tent, and hurriedly covered it with a quilt. Then wrap the tape and cover that part tightly.
Even though the doctor said it couldn't be done because it was already infected.
Fortunately, as long as he cooperates, the operation can be carried out in a few days. Doctors will then remove his entire penis to create a new uterus and a new female genitalia, the depth of which will be determined by the tissue of the gut.
The movie is called [Girls] , and it's about a boy's mental journey to become a girl.
There are his disgust for his male body, the bullying and tolerant family of his classmates, the scarred feet from practicing ballet, and his sometimes fearful and sometimes determined eyes.
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(Note: In order to prevent confusion when reading, "he" and "she" in this article are the gender at birth.)
Long, long ago, transgender people were seen as the incarnation of gods.
For example, in ancient Greek mythology, Hermaphrodites, the son of Aphrodite, the god of love, was a male god with female sexual characteristics.
But myths are myths, and they can't be counted. To be honest, the first transgender person in history should be the Roman slave Spolos .
In 67 AD, the Roman Emperor Nero fell in love with the 16-year-old slave Spolos, but at that time, the society did not allow same-sex love, so he castrated Spolos, turned her into a woman, changed her name to Sabina, and dressed up as the queen. Like, marry him.
At the wedding, the two frequently kissed passionately without shyness. On the night of the bridal chamber, I even played role-playing.
Spolos pretended to be husband, Nero to wife, and he imitated the young girls who had tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time, shouting to bed, pretending to be broken.
History is always strikingly similar.
More than a hundred years later, Elagabalus , the 25th emperor of the Roman Empire , married three times in his life, raped priestesses, and at the same time liked men, especially inferior men like athletes, slaves, and grooms.
Later, he simply painted eye shadow, wore wigs, and dressed in women's clothing. He found it unsatisfactory, so he offered a reward to solicit doctors to help him change sex, and he succeeded with great difficulty. The first thing was to go to Huamen Liuhu to be a chicken.
He also opened a street selling spring in the palace, " standing by the door like a prostitute, shaking the curtain, and greeting passers-by with coquettish words ."
But in most countries, transgender starts with eunuchs .
According to historical records, the first people to use eunuchs as servants were the Sumerians in the 21st century BC, followed by Byzantines, Ottomans, Indians, Persians and Egyptians.
It's really easy to use, not only can it take on errands that ordinary maids can't do, but it also lacks a lot of goodies, so it's impossible to grab a woman from the master.
It's just that the method of castration is extremely cruel, and it costs life at every turn.
For example, the Ottoman Empire first bought 6-10-year-old black slaves from Africa, pulled the work out with force, then cut it with a sharp knife, and plugged a sponge ball dipped in boiling oil on the wound. After stopping the bleeding, he wrapped his whole body with an ointment cloth and buried it in the hot sand, with only his head exposed.
The mortality rate is 70%. If they are lucky enough to survive, they will be sold at a high price to the boudoir of the upper class in Istanbul to serve the nobles and celebrities.
China is nowhere near comfortable.
In 1870, British official Stinder wrote that the purification process in the Qing Dynasty consisted of " first tying the lower abdomen with a white cloth or bandage, washing the surgical site with hot chili water, and then severing the whole with a sickle-shaped knife. Then a white wax needle was inserted into the urethra. , cover the wound with paper soaked in cold water and bandage it. ”
It's not over yet.
Sun Yaoting, an eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote in his autobiography "The Last Eunuch in China", "The eunuch has a minor repair every three years and a major repair every five years to prevent some people from being castrated, and then give them a knife, called stubble."
But in the end, it was castrated. Now it seems that it is at most half a transgender person, and the other half is an identity attribute imposed by the feudal society.
And gender is a choice, not an attribute.
The person who really made this choice, or Gender Dysphoria - "gender dysphoria", was the British woman Hannah Snell .
The so-called "gender dysphoria" refers to the suffering that a person suffers from being assigned a gender at birth that does not match his or her gender identity.
In 1745, when Hannah Snell was 22 years old, she could no longer bear the pain, so she borrowed a men's clothing from her brother-in-law, and joined the Marine Corps to kill the enemy in disguise like Mulan.
She was later shot in the groin and, worried about revealing her gender, asked a female doctor to remove the bullet by name.
So did the French diplomat Charles Beaumont .
In 1777, at the age of 49, he began to appear in women's clothing, claiming to be a woman since birth, and asking the French government to recognize his gender.
King Louis XVI and the court complied with him, and even paid for a cloakroom full of decent women's clothing.
In 1910, German sexologist Magnus Hersfield published a paper on "transvestites" and "transsexualism", which first proposed the idea that human gender could be changed by medical means.
Nine years later, he opened a sexology institute in Berlin - the world's first sex clinic, dedicated to transgender people.
Most famously, in 1931, the Danish landscape artist Aina Moens Wegener was transformed into a woman , Lily Elber .
The testicles and penis are removed, the scrotum is used to reshape a female genitalia, and another woman's uterus is transplanted into it. However, due to poor medical standards, Lily died of rejection the day after surgery.
The Dutch press published the news, but it was quickly forgotten.
Until 2000, writer David Ebershoff wrote a novel based on this matter, titled "The Danish Girl". Fifteen years later, its eponymous film [The Danish Girl] was released, and Lily was played by Eddie Redmayne.
But whether successful or not, Lily Elber has given courage to trans people who are hiding in the dark and ashamed to see people, especially Michael Dillon .
Her real name is Laura, and she has loved to wear menswear since she was a child. In 1939, she underwent penile reconstruction at Charing Cross Hospital in London and, by taking testosterone supplements, stopped menstrual bleeding and eventually had her uterus removed.
As many as 13 surgeries were performed, making it the world's first female-to-male case.
By the 1950s, because of the application of hormone therapy, that is, artificial hormones, sex reassignment surgery advanced by leaps and bounds, and its development became more and more mature.
At that time, an American soldier named George Jorgensen went to Denmark. When he returned home two years later, he had become a woman named Christine .
With fluttering blond hair, slender stature, and a coquettish physique, she has the charm of a mature woman, but when she smiles, she is innocent and charming, like a sexy stunner.
It is said that he took artificial estrogen for a year to make his breasts grow, at the same time, his Adam's apple became smaller and his skin was delicate, and then he underwent lower body transformation.
Almost overnight, he became a hot topic in the news media for months. The New York Times called him " a model of transgender people whose charisma has won the hearts of millions ."
Christine herself speaks around, encouraging people to live their lives.
Some media maliciously slandered him, and he responded gracefully, " Although I can't have children, I can enjoy sex with a woman's body. You can think of me as a woman who has had her uterus cut off. "
As soon as these words came out, more people stopped seeing transgender people as perverts.
Christian Hamburger, the doctor who worked for Christine, also received letters from as many as 465 transgender people in the United States.
As a result, in 1952, Christian Hamburger set up branches in New York and San Francisco, and sex reassignment surgery has been on the right track since then.
A year later, Taiwan, China also ushered in this "storm".
The headline on the front page of "United Daily News" was bold and surprisingly large, "A pioneering work in the history of my country's medicine, Xie Jianshun succeeded in sex reassignment surgery".
After Miss Christine in the West, there is another Miss Xie Jianshun. It looks like a woman on the surface, her hair is long, her voice has changed from rough to shrill, and all aspects of her speech and behavior have been feminine. I'm a little embarrassed to see a man now.
At that time, Xie Jianshun thought that he was the only one in the country and that there would be no one to come, but 40 years later, a man named Jin Xing also accepted the transgender.
It was 1995, before many modern ideas were formed, and Venus lay on the operating table in excruciating pain. For fear of the effects of the anesthetic, he did not fight. " The moment the skin was opened, it was painful, and a photojournalist passed out on the spot ."
In the third stage, even the doctor couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Your chest is done, the beard and Adam's apple are gone, don't do it again", but Jin Xing insisted, "Doctor, you don't have to joke, what's the matter? thing."
After the millennium, transgender people emerge in an endless stream, including supermodels Liya T, Andrea Peggis, directors Wachowski sisters, actor Laverne Cox, Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jen satisfied.
In 2015, he appeared on the cover of "Vanity Fair" in his new post-transgender identity, Caitlin Jenner , with a line that read "Call me Caitlin."
He also set up a new Twitter account under that name, saying, " If I'm going to hide this secret until I die and do nothing, then lying in bed before I die, I'll say to myself, 'You're wasting your time. You've never faced yourself in your life.' I don't want that. "
During this period, films about transgender people also appeared, such as [Rose Boys], [Boys Don't Cry], [Across America] and "Pose."
For example , in [Ordinary Women] , Marina who underwent male genital mutilation. In [Crazy Hormones] , the transgender dancer played by Lee Pace.
And [girl] , Lara sent her younger brother to kindergarten, and the teacher asked, "Are you his sister?" Lara hesitated for a second, but quickly nodded with a smile, her tone was crisp and light, "Yes, I am his sister."
Then he left the classroom and walked across the corridor. In the past five seconds, he held the straps of the backpack with both hands, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.
It's like winning the world's approval.
Isn't that just recognition? Dare to live out your true self and endure both physical and mental torment. This is a rare courage in itself, and it is certainly worthy of recognition.
The irony is that even today, in the comment area of Jinxing Weibo, there are still insults like "you are a shemale" and "not a man or a woman". And because of these insults, more than 1 in 10 of the more than 4 million transgender people in China have attempted suicide.
What should I say?
In an era of true freedom, gender will not be used as a ruler. No matter what kind of person was born, everyone is gender free, with their own personality, charm and life. Everyone transgenders because of what they want, not to conform to society's gender norms.
Everyone cares about your core more than your shell.
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Author/Aunt Liu
This article was first published on the WeChat public account [Broken Word]
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