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when I tell people that I am

a transgender woman

the reaction I have good varies

It is usually wow how brave not

manches what a hard life you have

poor dear

and I also have answers like ok

what is that the truth is that we live in

a society where the subject of

transgender and transgender people

it’s still a taboo even though

this year there was a boom about

theme with different different models

artists that came to public light

with its transition but still follows

being a subject that not many know for

what then there is no direct contact

people live hidden people

transgender we are like trying to

mix in society without giving

account

but that is not my house I will tell you

a story that happened to me some ago

years when the transition began

I had about six months eight months or more

unless I started my treatment

hormonal and this was that

I was in the bathroom of a square

very large commercial well- known in

Mexico and it ‘s where I worked and strolled

who was in the bathroom was washing

hands and a woman fits me

in a very strange way if as if

I was doing a satanic ritual

with babies or something like that and I’m just

trying to pee sorry and in that

two security guards enter and I

they ask me to leave because the bathroom

that you are using exclusively for

women

for this I stay this way of I am

just trying to ping

I’m not hurting anyone

and in that I was escorted to nine policemen

outside the shopping plaza where I

I worked like I was a criminal

as he had stolen something I think there’s

more important things to attend to

a person who is trying to do

I peed in the bathroom for nine

policemen know

for me this kind of thing not only

happen to me once or twice are things that

unfortunately you have to

to accustom should not be related

nobody should get used to having

afraid to go to the public toilet nobody me

I think that here of you has happened

they say that I want to pee

but I do not go to the bathroom because they’re going to

get down and that’s something that

transgender people pass us all the

weather

unfortunately and there are even laws that

prohibit transgender people

antenna the public toilets and they give

permission people to hit the ive

have accuse us of nothing if they are

aggressive with them which I think

atrocious and this was something that happened the year

past

these things like that of the example of

bath are things that are causing you a

trauma like a scar but it’s not

Visible is a scar on your self-esteem

it’s a scar on your soul in your

heart and little by little it’s going to be a

collection of scars all in its

self-esteem and after a very person

fragile and there is a person with many

traumas and with many fears things like

the bathroom suddenly becomes longer a

social paranoia that happened to me in

where I did not want to leave my house anymore

I did not want to go out with my friends because

if maybe at a glance the

people do not realize but once

that you enter the bathroom once you start

to talk people start to notice things

that maybe he did not notice if people

it starts there because you have the voice so

thick or because your hands are so

big or stay looking at the face as

trying to examine you and obviously you

you are very nervous

this kind of thing happens to us all the

time and they make us some very very people

insecure

I was like that and the truth is that it is not

father

I remember once I was in a

birthday party of a friend in

a very big party with many

people and in that a group of men and

a girl that they were watching me and

I said oh my god they already realized

that he transacted quiet keith to see

what are we going to do good I think that already

I’m leaving but I want to pee

no no better I go and then I was

very sure I was not enjoying the

party everyone was

having fun sitting and in that you are

girls approach and tell me hey how are you

and I well thank you and treated like that

I did not notice anything

hiding and in that he says to me hey look

what happens is that I have the friends that

they like you are those who are the

back if they want to see then which

of the two you like because he wants

invite to dance

at that time it was like

I felt so bad about the level of

insecurity that I already had and phobia

social and paranoia where I thought

that and everyone was talking about

me but also at the same time I said

You can already take two men and I felt

how this need to ok victory

enough to feel insecure enough to be

hiding enough that you feel sorry

show you how you are

At the end of the day it ‘s my life I decide

how I want to live it so it’s nothing

easy to make that decision

I think society often you

push as to live as is right

They know how blue is not child’s

rubbing of girls not your dad studied

right your grandfather studied law well

that you are also going to study law

long hair and only for

women or if you are a woman must

make up p

things like that are social stigmas that

we should be removing and then to the

trans people puts us like in this

this taboo that we exaggerate a

surgery so we have to

we have to be a certain way happens to me

when people ask me if

they surprise me that I am a trans woman and

llopis month they stay watching like this

others that you do not notice me is that as

I should see how it is how

it says that I should be noticed is the

true a very strange question things

like this one in the bathroom and in the

situation that happened in the list of my

friends made me live the life of a

differently because I was sick

tired of living life if I said you know that

I’m ready to enjoy my life

ready to let the opinions of

I care about people but seriously and

he learned a very important lesson

that we can all choose how we want

see things how we want to take the

lifetime

and it’s not so easy sometimes you get

Negative things but you can say good

I stay here depressed I feel bad

By myself

I’m sad or I live my life as it is

ready and what’s next

you accept your current situation and change

what you do not like and that’s what I did

there are times that we ourselves are

our worst judges

I believe that the majority here knows what

that what I’m talking about is always

as criticizing not always and this voice

inside that they tell us no is not

enough you can not do it

not not good is to do this better

stay in your safe place we

we criticize we judge ourselves but sometimes

we forget that this voice also that we

they say no it’s not the same voice that sometimes

it does not say clearly that it can bland

You are a fucking person you can

do because not then like the lupi

olave ​​peep on in make know we can

decide whether to live in reality or equal

we can start to form

our own reality, I always know

I said that they are not reality is

as we want to do it

things that happen to us in life

we decide and we want to see them

as elections or do we want to

regret and make us a victim and

so I’m going to tell you another story is

something very personal

good not so personal because he’s in

all social networks and documented it

on youtube from day 1 but it’s

about my transition

I was born as a child in a body of

child but from very very very little I

I knew something was not right I did not know

exactly there is if they know that

mom step and trans

but I knew there was something not me

they identified and with the children either

I identified with the girls was something

very weird and this feeling is terrible

because it starts causing you these

scars that I talked about a while ago

these insecurities

and you feel like you do not belong and the

At the end of the day we are human beings and

all we want is like

belong

What we want is that they accept us

they want us but when you have a life

like mine

people spend their time judging you remember

when I was in swimming practice

swimming for several years

from very small and had like seven

years but obviously I could not

change me only in the dressing room of

children so my mom took me from

girls and I told my mom mom

when I’m going to have one of those and when

I’m going to other women not changing and mom

what are you talking about, yes, when

I will fall what I have and I will

have one more time my mom was then not

it’s not that it’s not going sometimes it’s not going to happen and

me as well as how is it not but

well happened that happened the time starts

at school have sex education and

you realize even if I ‘m not

a girl

I am a child ok in that time went by

I had this theory where he said

that I was born as a girl but my

dads wanted a child so he

I told the doctor

Hey, well, put something in there that is a child and

I said clearly that at 18 they will leave me

pubis

so I go to my parents who do their

evil plan then you will have to

fix this that is not my fault and

obviously that never happened I’m still flat

as a table

but I showed up the afternoon of

sexual orientation sexual identity a

this age

I did not know what it meant to be gay

and what they said to me gay in school

since I can remember

like all the words on which

can imagine and at 14 I decided

how to get out of the closet like that and I said

Well, I’m a boy, I’m effeminate

I like men because then I am

gay so I came out of the closet like that

at 14 years old and I started living a

life as a homosexual going out with others

guys but I could not no no I do not

they liked

I remember the time he heads to one of

they may be less than going left

watching and sees that and not me cuidadito

They opened the car door when they pass

for my new brother and then I gave

mind that something different happened with me

but I did not know who he was then

I moved to the great city of Mexico to

18 years old and had a job like

makeup artist so I had contact with

many people

then I went to a client and she told me

oh how pretty you are at that moment

How do you feel a very satisfying

big inside when someone

I confused with a woman but I was

cyclically instantly

no no I am not a woman I am a child I am

beautiful but I am a girl and in that I am

I think you have not seen well in a

mirror really do not talk like a child does not

you move like a child you are not a child and

I do not know if I’m a child, honey, do not look

I understand that I am a trans woman

I know what they are in a body that does not

it’s yours but I swear that the day

begins to live life as like you

you are really going to know the difference

for me that was like I do not understand

what’s happening so I went

running home to my computer and

I started watching youtube and start having

thousands and thousands of people who are

happening the same thing that I was going through

testimonies of people in states

united in europe so

I started to investigate more and it was like no

I know if you remember those little cartoons

little dots and numbers that he is assuming and

then you discover the figure like that was

uniting all the events of my life

and everything that had happened and all the

things he’d said my mom all

kind of things and I realized

this clear in the wrong body have not

I took action and started my therapy

hormone began to see a psychologist

everything was clicking from inside and the

people

luckily that is around me

they already knew before that I

I said I am a trans person to them

victories and we already knew we are

waiting for everything to come out is like your

denial but with this they also come

many taboos and many insecurities the

older than I had was who is going to

want a person like me who is going to

to be a person a woman who before

was child

this was my biggest concern and not the

I work not the other things but then

things are different as I started

realize that many men like me

they paid attention and in the neighborhood the

Coffee and I, though, and well, very well, but

this changes when the people then

they just want to play with you when

nothing else is a fetish and then wine

also a surgery that I did in the

likes to appear more feminine

and to please people more and

this was the worst and the best decision of

my life

the worst because I operated to like

the others to accept me something

that nobody needs I do not need that

nobody accepts me that nobody approves me

when you are sure of yourself

How do you like yourself as you accept with your

defects and with your virtues

then stop importing what the

People think of you as they like you

fall well in the end is your life

then they did not have to remove by

complications that I had and from this

I learned the great lesson that

It is accepted, it wants you, do not let it

nobody has power over you nobody

only you can choose what is it

that will feel for you I have a base of

followers of millions of followers and

The most beautiful thing about this is that you can

take the message that I want to give you the

message that I will always give you is that

each and every one of you are valuable

I do not know many of you from

those who watch my videos are not

I know but what I know is that everyone

has something very valuable inside something that

It makes them worthwhile

something very special is not easy

find it but when they find it

hold on to that, hold on and you’ve won

grow

thank you very much

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