Transition: 2001-2004. Fully stealth since 2002 (had sex reassignment surgery & changed all of my documents). My last transition procedure was voice feminization surgery.
Transition: 2001-2004. Fully stealth since 2002 (had sex reassignment surgery & changed all of my documents). My last transition procedure was voice feminization surgery.
How did your transition impact your and your family’s relations with the extended family and local community? I’m also Romanian, a straight dude, and in the early 2000s it was wrong for me, as a guy, to have long hair and piercings. I was constantly reminded and reprimanded for it. Oh, I also got beat up on the street going home from a club, for the same reason. I moved away as soon as I could do so.
My family and I have always been unapologetic. My parents’ explanation of it was a mental disorder that needed to be fixed through transition always worked. Of course people talk, but as they say, cainii latra - ursu merge… I was a feminine gay boy in school, had long hair, painted my nails, wore makeup, etc… got bullied a lot, even by the teachers, but I was “de gasca” and had my group who always had my back. Now I’m a straight woman with a husband and 2 kids, even got married at church… Romanians have this idea in their mind that trans is always something like Naomi (you know who I’m talking about) or the other “trans” women (most escorts) who’d go on TV shows to make ratings and stuff… they don’t think of someone like me when they hear trans.