She when she started telling me:

Mom, I'm just a girl.

And I said: how is this going to be?

How does such a small child say this?

Or when she told me:

Mom, I'm going to cut it.

-She used to say: But if I have a girl's hair, I have a girl's face,

I have... a girl's mouth, I'm a girl.

And of course, I corrected her.

She told her that her body was that of a child.

-The first signs can appear very soon,

because we must take into account that from 2 to 3 years

The child is already capable of knowing if he is a boy or a girl.

-What happened to me?

She felt strange to me..., but I didn't know either...

She thought I liked boys and that I was gay,

but then over time, well no.

society has changed

and families of transsexual minors listen to their children.

Most of them support them and try to keep their lives from being hell.

You never expect that to happen to you.

But once it happens to you, you accept it or you accept it.

There is no need to take and be ashamed of the child because he is transsexual.

-What I have very clear is that Patriva will be transsexual all her life.

So she's not a thing that she can push away,

It is not something that we are going to be able to put aside.

But the road is not easy. There are many obstacles to overcome,

because the existing protocols are directed

only transsexuals and adults.

To date, there is no specific legislation

that regulates the situation of transsexual minors.

-It's a suffering

that they suffer,

but that the illness has others,

which is called intolerance.

-The rate, for example, of suicide in these patients is very high,

much higher than the population

20 or 30 times higher than the population.

-That's why we went out, to say that:

Hey, if it happens to you, it's not the end of the world.

"Sex sense", next in Documents TV.

My name is Gloria

I am 32 years old,

I dedicate myself to computing

and I am a transsexual woman.

I realized it when I was 3 years old and I didn't say it until I was 24.

Now there are many cases of transsexual boys and girls

and it is not because now there are transsexual boys and girls and not before,

but because before we did not dare to express what was happening to us

at an early age in general,

and then, we took the step, already to an adult age,

or even very adult, in some cases.

Now..., the youngest boys and girls

they are daring to tell their families what is happening to them.

I think because society has changed.

She is more open to understanding these minors,

what happens to them, to help them and accompany them in the process.

I believe that children, in some way, perceive the environment that surrounds them

and they know if certain things are safe to talk about or not.

I have the memory of when I was 3 or 4 years old,

that it was something I couldn't tell because I had a vague feeling

that it was going to be something very bad if they talked about it.

I believe that this does not happen to children of today.

-Jose and I have 3 children.

The oldest is 8 years old, his name is Angel.

The second is called Aaron, he is 7,

and Ariel who is 5.

Ariel, formerly Uriel,

he was always crying,

he was very shy,

he was always quiet, he didn't relate to anyone

and he was always with us, he didn't want to go out,

he started to get dressed...

with the clothes that, perhaps, the cousins ​​left her,

in my house.

And from there he went on to more.

He began to tell me how beautiful I was,

that he wanted to be just like me.

He wanted to paint himself.

Sometimes she told me why she had a pilila

because she was a girl,

and all that went to more, to more,

until she already told me why she didn't take her to the doctor

so that he would cut off her pilila and they would put a "toto" on her.

I the first reactions,

I was like a little "come on now, this will be gay",

but when she started telling me:

"Mom, I'm a girl."

And I said: "How is this going to be?

How does such a small child say this?

Or when he told me: "Mom, I'm going to cut it."

And you were scared.

When the psychologist gave us the diagnosis

she told us that this could be something temporary,

that for now nothing can be done

and that in my house she could do whatever she wanted,

but away from home he had to be a boy and he had to be called Uriel.

-Gender dysphoria or transsexuality is defined

as extreme and persistent discomfort,

with the sex assigned at birth.

It is characterized because the person has an inconsistency

between what you feel, of feeling like a man or a woman,

and what he bodily sees that he is.

The first signs may appear very early,

because we must take into account that from 2 to 3 years

The child is already capable of knowing if he is a boy or a girl.

-I knew something,

But you never expect that to happen to you.

But once it happens to you, you accept it and you accept it,

there is no need to take and be ashamed of the child because he is transsexual.

He painted my nails

he painted my lips,

I put on rouge,

I went with her to the street like this,

to show her he wasn't bad

that a man was painted in the street,

that she doesn't have to care about everything others tell her,

that if her father, which was me, she accepted it,

everything else he had to give without a care.

I told her:

"Are you sure of what you want?

Do you want to be a girl and you want to go out on the street as a girl?

And she told me, "Yes, mom."

And I tell him: "Well, here are your father and your mother,

that they will support you forever,

and they will always be with you

and they will not allow anyone to make fun of you

and we will always be with you.

Then she said: "Well, mom, let's go to the Chinese

and you are going to buy me the things that I need".

So, we went to the Chinese, which was the first day of the fair,

bought a set, took some shoes,

took some tweezers,

all this to get ready at night to go to the fair dressed as a girl.

And it was the happiest day of her life.

-Today neuroscientists are teaching

that we are already born with a male or female brain

and that, for a lot of culture, for a lot of surgery

or no matter how much pressure you submit, you will never change that orientation.

-The same as the organism and our whole body develops

in a direction towards male or female,

it also happens with our brain,

and that is what we are studying

in transsexual people.

-We went to school on September 1

that the teachers came and the director was there,

and we raised the issue.

Well look, I bring you a letter from our association

so you know that Urielya does not exist,

that Ariel exists and that I want her to come dressed as a girl

and to use the girl's bathrooms.

When I brought him the letter

and she told me that no problem,

that we should not worry and that she is very happy

because many parents would not deal with this topic like that.

-Since it is officially, let's say or externally Ariel,

she is very happy,

she has changed her attitude in class, she is much happier,

much more extroverted, she shows herself as she is,

that even last year she had a hard time.

-I don't think there is any pedagogical or religious criterion,

neither cultural nor artistic, that prohibits

allow everyone to feel with the gender they want to identify with

-Any father, I suppose, whether he is a gypsy or a Jew,

I guess he gives his life for his children, right?

What do you want most in this life, at least me.

I would and my family does the same.

What does not enter my head is because you are a gypsy

and have your transsexual or gay child you have to despise

because the gypsy ordinances tell you, not that.

I am Natalia, I live in Benasque with my partner Martin, Irish.

We met 16 years ago here in Benasque,

we got together and now we have a family

formed by the two of us and two children:

Martina who is 14 years old

and Patri, who is 11, is going to be 12.

When I was little, but very small, in childhood,

he told the other kids that he was a head boy

when they asked him.

So maybe,

the companions told the mothers:

"It's that you don't understand, because Patri is actually a boy,

in his head he's a boy."

The companions explained it because he had explained it very well.

So, the companions were the ones who transmitted it at home.

-Now I am going to show him that he is taking care of my things,

my tracks and my things.

My Scalextric and my things.

But you know what?.

-Tell it to the television, come on.

-Guys, you know what?

Today I am taking care of them

because she...

-She has to record him on TV.

-She has to record me on TV.

Well, see you later, she speaks.

-And now... I'm not her, I'm him.

-No, I'm a boy, I'm a boy.

-And I also.

-Well, that.

-A little what they tell you is almost that you hide them,

a little what they are encouraging you is that if nobody finds out,

Well, better, that way they go unnoticed,

but what I have very clear

is that Patri is going to be transsexual all his life,

So, it's not a thing that he can push away,

she is not something that we are going to be able to separate,

he's going to be something we have to deal with.

The sooner you see

and the sooner society understands that it exists,

because I also believe that there are not a few cases that exist,

The sooner that is understood

better quality of life that all of them and their families can have.

-As of today, there is no specific legislation

that regulates the situation of transsexual minors.

But, nevertheless, work is being done, it is a recent issue,

It is a new topic and it is being worked on

to develop initiatives that achieve this goal.

-According to the most recent data

that have been made in the Dutch population

estimate that 1 in 10,000 men and 1 in 40,000 women

They feel like the other sex.

Prevalence in childhood unknown.

There are only Dutch and Canadian studies

who are providing data

care for children in these countries.

-My relationship with Patri, at the beginning,

I guess she was like father and daughter.

After 1 or 2 years,

we noticed that she threw herself a lot into the masculine.

So we were like two boys,

a big boy and a small boy.

We had a conversation with Patri about 1 or 2 months ago, two months now,

that the subject was already very clear,

that Patri wanted to be a man.

So we sat him here and asked him straight to his face:

"Patri, how are you feeling, man or girl?"

And the answer was quickly, "Boy."

And then, for us it is a new thing,

He must be the first transsexual I know.

To be honest, I don't know of another.

Patri has made it clear that he wants to be a man,

well he listens, we will have to support him in what we can

And let's hope we get it right

because you never know.

-I think he has begun to be aware

from puberty that he has started puberty.

I think that until now he was a child and that's it.

I believe that Patri, deep inside him,

he has never thought that his body would develop

like a girl's.

So, the one who is now seeing those changes,

is producing some tensions and fears

that he even he has had some day of anxiety,

of not wanting to go to school,

because he had a stomach ache.

So, we try to manage it,

not pressuring him too much,

trying to support him, trying to talk.

It's hard.

Knowing that there is a solution,

It seems absurd to me that we end up giving him anxiolytics.

Yes, it is true that, at some point,

in those conversations that are crossed with professionals,

Someone said, "Well, what if not when he's older,

a mastectomy is done and he's done."

And of course, you say: "Now I give him anxiolytics

And then I do the mastectomy."

That seems absurd to me.

-Today we have very powerful elements, substances,

very powerful drugs

that allow us to block puberty;

because in the end, puberty is nothing more than the brain being activated

and a hormone in the brain begins to flow through the blood

and he is going to give the orders

to start generating

our male and female hormones.

And from there, the development begins.

Well, inhibitors basically what they do

is to prevent that brain hormone from doing its job,

is that simply,

and delay until we have it clear

Let that hormone do its thing.

-There is no unified criterion in this sense,

not all specialists agree

and the protocols that are established

they do not allow these inhibitors to be applied to minors.

-In the treatment of adolescents,

maybe the key point

to understand why there is controversy

and why there is no single position on what to do,

is that there is little experience.

At this moment, in the center,

we have in treatment of inhibition of puberty,

if I'm not mistaken, three people.

I think that the interruption of puberty

it is a very positive tool

in the treatment of transsexuality in adolescents.

-They are hesitating

because they do not know very well, at a legal level, how it is done.

In fact,

what is legislated in Aragon

These are instructions for adults.

there is nothing for children,

So it's a bit discretionary.

The only thing missing is the decision of the specialists to put it on.

-The blockers is not a final thing,

it is reversible,

So if we're wrong

can be rectified.

There are other treatments that are final, not blockers.

If you take blockers, if we were wrong,

if he has deceived us, if something strange has happened to him,

it is reversible.

So...,

I see that it is a treatment

that before you make a final decision very good.

-Hello.

- Will you come with me here to my room?

Yes, talk for a bit.

Take off your mask, I don't understand you well.

Do you want it to be summer already?

-Yes.

To go to the pool and stuff? -Well...,

I would like that they no longer put the blockers on me,

to go to the pool.-And that?

-Your boobs grow...

-And the rule too, right?

How would you feel if your period came down?

-Well, bad.

-Bad because?

-Because boys don't get their period.

-Do you want them to put blockers on you?

-Yes.

I think I'll wear them at the beginning of March.

Well, they will tell me if they put them on me.

-And if they don't put them on you?

-Well, I do not know.

I will be sad.

-To these children, at least, we must give them hope.

If they are not followed,

the rate, for example, of suicides

in these patients is very high,

much higher than the population

20 or 30 times higher than the population,

in these children and adolescents.

-I think that as a family the issue of...

oysters!, you have an objective of all and for all, it is a team,

we have to help and we have to support Patri,

that he's the one having a hard time right now.

So, I think that also helps you to strengthen ties,

It is a very intimate subject that normally at that age you do not deal with your children

It is an age that, on the contrary, distances themselves.

By having this, this topic very much in mind,

I think we have made more pineapple.

-I work at the Prado Museum, in room security,

and logically, when working there,

I have received the visit of my 3 children and my wife several times.

Eli, apart from the fact that she calls his attention in general everything

and she asks a lot,

there are certain things, like for example,

Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

What catches your attention in that painting

is the diversity it represents,

as there is no stereotype of man, woman,

but there are men with the body of a fish,

head of a man with feet of a horse;

as there is not a fixed thing

and in what perhaps she can be pigeonholed,

Like something out of the ordinary in quotes, right?

Then a lot of sirens appear,

that have always attracted a lot of attention,

I think that because of the lack of genitalia,

whether they are sirens or sirens, none have genitals,

then both can be

and she feels like a bit of a part of that.

She said: "Well, if I have girl's hair, I have a girl's face,

I have... a girl's mouth,

I am a Girl".

And of course, I corrected her, told her that her body belonged to a child,

that she had to realize.

-How she enjoyed when they confused her,

in quotes, with a girl.

People we met on the street:

"Ah, the girl, how beautiful...", or this or the other.

As she was silent

she never corrected anyone and said: "I'm not a girl",

never the other way around.

She smiled when they mistook her for a girl.

But all that from the age of two.

- And at four years, approximately,

Well, we already talked to doctors,

and then they told us, they sent us to mental health.

We started going there and there they told us clearly that she was a girl.

-The detection of transsexuality can be variable,

especially because the intensity of the dysphoria or discomfort

It is also variable between subjects.

There are children who already express it at a very early age

and with a very marked intensity

and they are the typical cases that the parents already see very clearly

and they see that they can do nothing to avoid it

and they bring it to the consultation.

There are other cases that

good because the child is more normative,

or be more shy, he tries to hide it

and then he expresses it in adolescence,

and there are even cases

who have expressed it in adulthood

because they have been very afraid of harming their family

or what will they say, a lot of social embarrassment

and have tried to endure

until they could no longer and have had to find a solution.

-You are already informing yourself, you are going to the places

and you see transsexual adults or adolescents or young people,

and you see how many problems they have

for not having been accepted as children.

And then of course, it's already the first alarm that goes off,

you don't want your daughter to come to that.

- Apart from the fact that we know of several cases of suicides,

That is what makes you realize a lot.

Above all, that's where you react and say:

"My mother, what is that she can die".

-It's totally gratuitous suffering,

What gives you the most to think about?

To think that it is a suffering,

that they suffer,

but that the illness has others,

which is called intolerance.

-Where is the solution?

in the information,

in the information of the people

and that is going to do, not that more come out, that they all come out,

and that will be the best for them

and the best for a more modern and freer society.

-Eli started the change,

what we call transit, over 6 years,

although he had been at home for a long time

because she always dressed how she wanted and everything,

but when she was 6 years old she was already an official, facing society.

She facing the school and everyone.

And now she herself is 9 years old to make 10.

Her older brother, who is 11 years old, is already in puberty.

All teenagers have to go through a bad phase,

of some hormonal changes in his body,

but those of my daughter were going to be brutal for her

because it is going to be becoming something that it is not, nor does it feel.

More or less, from 5 or 6 years old,

she's always been asking when she's going to grow a beard,

what at what age,

that if she dates me when I'm 12 or 13 years old, I'm already in high school

And if I'm in high school, they'll know I'm a boy.

-I took it for granted that he was going to be gay,

I was clear about that...

since she was quite small.

What happens is that as she spent a little time,

yes, she was asking me a little strange questions,

but I never thought that she was transsexual, never.

I'm not at all, don't you see what an open group I have?

Look, a lesbian, a gay, another lesbian...

And heteros for this part and here a transsexual.

Who was going to tell me.

What was wrong with me?

I felt weird, but I didn't know either.

I thought I liked boys and that I was gay

but then over time, well no.

-She did not know how to explain well and she told me:

"Let's see mom, a boy who wants a boy is gay, right?

And I: "Yes, honey."

Sure, she asked me for many explanations

and I didn't know if it was right

give him so much information with how small she was.

So, "a girl who likes girls, she's a lesbian, right?"

And I: "Yes, honey." "So, mom, I'm a boy,

and I don't want to be a boy, does that exist?

Sure, I stayed...

So, there I said, "Yes, honey, transsexual."

And I remember she told me:

"Well, mom, I want to be a transsexual when I grow up."

-I was the first to take inhibitors.

I was from 12 to 16 poking myself in the ass every 3 months.

And, the changes, well I didn't grow a beard,

I didn't find it beautiful...;

I came out less beautiful, they stopped my puberty,

my genitals diminished.

I don't know what else.

-Treatment consists of one injection every 3 months

that was paid by Social Security.

I think we paid 50 cents for the injection,

but the cost of the injection is 400 and some euros.

In the case of Edurne, it has been 4 years,

but the same in another case, it has to be before,

why do you start taking this medication

when you start to...

-To develop puberty.-Of course.

...when you start to develop is when you have to start

to cut it all off.

-I wasn't scared

because since I was already in the Clinic, they calmed me down,

They told me that soon the inhibitors would pass...

So they told me and after a short time I started it.

Yes, a month or two months.

-It's just that he didn't have time to...-To worry me.

-Because she didn't make any changes.

Her body didn't make any changes to boy.

-I started taking hormones for women when I was 16, because you can't before.

I had surgery on my chest 4 months ago,

because with the hormones nothing grew

and the endocrine told me that she didn't think I would grow any more.

If I study and then I have to operate,

They are months of recovery, so I lose those months.

At work, it also conditions me because...

-Because you have the DNI as a boy, you have the health card as a boy.

He has everything as a boy.

The curriculum has it as a girl,

that is, we have no choice but to wait and this year request it

because if not her as a person it is impossible for her to advance.

She goes to a job, they can't catch her,

she goes to a course to do an internship,

she has to be explaining my daughter's condition,

Why does she have to let the whole world know

that my daughter in the DNI is a boy and is a girl?

-To be able to access the change of name and sex

main documents are required,

one is a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or transsexuality,

which must be signed by a psychologist or psychiatrist,

and another is a document, a medical certificate

certifying that the person has been in treatment for a minimum of 2 years.

-When Edurne was about 6 years old,

what was she when she started not wanting to wear underpants,

only with panties, ask me for girl's clothes

already have a slightly defiant attitude with me

with clothes and stuff

I contacted a psychologist

to know if what she was doing with her was correct or not.

She has been the best person I have ever met.

when my girl was little,

because she was the only person with whom I had support,

is that she makes me cry.-Oh, mom, daughter!

But because you cry?

-Because I remember things.

-Hello.-Hello, beautiful.

-Hello, how are you, love?-Very well.

I need the sex change operation,

for me that is the most important thing.

I am waiting to be 18 years old to be able to operate,

because I can't operate before I'm 18,

and nothing, I already have 10 months left, I have less left.

-And do you know the date of the operation? -Well, not yet.

When I turn 18

I'm supposed to go through the waiting list and have surgery.

-Are you nervous?

-Yes, a little, but I have more desire than nerves, you know?

-Sure, that's normal.-And that, aunt.

-You're getting less. -Well, yes, let's see if it's coming.

The last straight already.

-And it's over, isn't it? -Yes.

-In my work, with my students, I introduce myself as Justin

and i basically decided

let each one understand what he wanted.

If I have to define myself,

I define myself...

I don't know, like a very cheerful person.

The truth is that I have spent many years avoiding defining myself

in the binary term of man woman,

knowing that I was not a woman

and that I was not going to be accepted, as is,

calling me man

with which I have begun to define myself as a person

and defining myself that way,

Honestly, I think I've developed quite well.

All my life,

I have lived without expressing the fact that I am transsexual to begin with,

because I didn't know either.

The reality of transsexual boys

in what is childhood to adolescence

not so visible

because they can pass for lesbian girls

or by masculine girls, what they say tomboy.

Well, it's kind of more accepted.

When talking about me

I don't speak in feminine, never,

and maybe, in my childhood,

I used the feminine because I had no other resources,

but for a long time,

I created a speech

where you didn't have to use adjectives.

He used other types of expressions so as not to fall into that,

because I didn't feel that way.

And I never really explained it

but what happened to me,

It was that when I grew up I didn't want to be a teacher,

I didn't want to be a firefighter, I didn't want to be a bus driver,

When I grew up I wanted to be a man

then, as long as I didn't have that, everything else didn't matter to me.

It is true, that from my adolescence,

I started going out with girls, because I'm attracted to girls,

and then, a kind of homosexual woman identity was created.

But it wasn't enough

I knew that I was not a homosexual woman,

I knew she wasn't like other lesbian girls I knew,

I knew I couldn't identify myself, that wasn't who I was.

-For us, she was the class dyke in the master's degree,

because i was like the typical modern cool

and so it is what we knew most and what we associate it with.

Already, later, when we started dating,

He told me very early on.

Then all the concepts changed

and, little by little, to all the people who knew what was happening to him,

to everyone he said, immediately, that everything fit,

that they understood everything.

One of the most striking things

it's how trained he was to hide it.

In the gym, what I usually do is:

At first, I do half an hour of "cardio",

which is to burn calories and not gain weight,

and then I do a second half hour of weights and machines.

I started doing that, basically to build muscle,

to try, of course,

that my body was the closest thing to a male body.

What happens when you have two, three years of training,

and you see that what you have achieved, is not going to advance from there,

Well, you say:

"I believe that by these means, I have gotten to where I could."

I am in the first, first phase of the whole process,

what is the phase of the psychologist and psychiatrist

they have to evaluate

You don't have any mental disorder.

Once you have those documents,

the next step would be to go to an endocrinologist,

let the endocrine study me,

study how much testosterone do i need

and, from there, one begins to take hormones

and then the time for surgery would come

that, in my case, I would like to operate on my chest, remove my chest,

and with that I would be happy.

With that and hormones.

I don't know what I'm going to do in the future with the locker room in the gym.

I don't know to what extent of hormoneation

I can still go to a women's locker room.

I don't know at what point I should go into a men's locker room.

I think there is no rule for that.

So, I am fortunate to live very close to the gym.

I'll probably end up going home to shower.

we met one night

at a bar counter.

I asked him: Where do you come from?

You're going too fast, kid.

I started dating a group of people

in which I later met Alexandra, my girlfriend.

When I started the process,

I started it too thanks to her,

thanks to the fact that she encouraged me a lot,

she pushed me a lot.

So, when I was already in the middle of everything, to say:

Wow, I'm going to change my life!

I think I stopped to reflect and said:

"She has started a relationship with me,

with the person that I am now, and right now I'm forcing her,

so to speak, to like a person

that, I know that I am going to be me, but my physique is going to change,

then I began to worry a lot to think

that, of course, I am risking something very good that I have now.

So to speak,

I'm dragging someone into something that is mine

and she seemed very unfair and very selfish.

-La cuestiónes que no estás arrastrando a nadie.

Si no lo hicieras,sería como mentirme...,

en cierto modo.

Tampoco me estás poniendouna pistola en la cabeza.

Sabemos que si cuando pase,la cosa no sigue igual,

pues lo hablaremos en su momento.

Es inevitable pensarlo, pero parartepor el que pasará o el "y si...",

es un poco pérdida de tiempo.

-Claro, eso se puede aplicara todas las relaciones.

Entonces, en la nuestra,tenemos esta circunstancia,

en otra relación, tendrán otra,

a lo mejor, ella tiene cosascon las que yo vivo

y me gustan más o menos.

O sea, yo creo que mucho,me gusta mucho.

-Yo soy un chico transexualde 21 años.

Me llamo Leo.

Todo el mundo me conoce ya como Leo,en la vida diaria vivo como Leo,

todo el mundo me trata en masculinoy he empezado mi proceso hormonal,

para el comienzo de este proceso.

La parte médica digamos,

aunque el proceso personalempezó mucho antes.

En muchos casos de cuando se sabe,a cuando se cuenta, pasa mucho tiempo

y mi caso es uno de ellos.

Yo saberlo lo he sabido de siempre,es algo que siempre tienes ahí,

que siempre llevas dentro,

que todos los día sucedealguna situación que dices:

"Esto no encaja conmigo,

la gente no me está percibiendocomo yo me siento,

no me está tratandocomo yo creo que debería tratarme".

Hay muchas situacionesen la vida cotidiana

en la que sientesque eso no va contigo,

que tú, en mi caso no eres mujer,y tal.

Pero yo creo que mi estrategiadespués de analizarlo mucho,

creo que ha sido de evitación totalde estos pensamientos.

Yo recuerdo rezar por la noche

porque al día siguienteapareciera con otro cuerpo

y me cambiara el cuerpomágicamente de Jesús.

No rezaba nunca,rezaba solo para esto.

O en la ducha pensandono quiero esto, que mal,...

Mi madre, mi pareja y mi hermana,

que eran las personas más importantesen mi vida en ese momento,

quise hacerles partícipesde mi descubrimiento, de quien era.

No de llegar un día y decirles:

"Sabéis que me llamo tal

y pensáis que soy una mujer,pero no, en realidad no".

No quería eso,

también porque yo no lo teníaasí de claro.

Yo no hice todo el proceso soloy luego dije "voy a hablarlo",

sino que dije que empecé a comentar

que estaba planteándome muchas cosassobre mi género,

que había muchas cosasque nunca había tenido claras

y que había estado evitando,

pero que estaba afrontando aspectosde mi vida que necesitaba aceptar,

sobre los que necesitaba pensar

y entonces,ellas fueron ayudándome, ¿no?

-Como madre, el afrontarla transexualidad de un hijo

a mí personalmente me...

es algo muy complejo

que una persona que no es transexualno podemos llegar a entender,

sentirse algocuando te miras al espejo

ver que no correspondecon lo que tú te sientes,

¿cómo te puedes imaginar eso?

Es una pesadilla,me parece de una crueldad brutal.

-Una vez lo tuve más aceptadoy elegí el nombre,

ya se lo fui comentandoa familiares más lejanos,

a amigos también, y me fue muy bien.

Con todo el mundo,excepto con parte de la familia,

que es mi padre en concreto,

que, como este tema ya imaginábamosque iba a ser delicado,

porque antes de este tema, vinoel tema de "me gustan las mujeres",

que ya había sido complicadoen su momento,

pues ya sabíamos que cualquier cosade este tipo iba a ser complicada.

Y dijo que se iba de casa,que no quería ver estos cambios,...

Bueno, ni siquiera había empezadola hormonación,

pero que él no me iba a llamar Leo

porque no apoyabalo que estaba haciendo.

Como él creía que estono me iba a traer nada bueno,

pues que no quería participar de algoque no creía positivo.

-Es verdad que para mi maridoha sido más difícil.

Ellos tienen una relacióny una forma de ser bastante parecida

y ha sido complicado.

-Mi madre sufre muchoy yo sufro por ella también,

de ver que está en la tesiturade ¿qué hago?

Le insiste "para Luis, por favor,cambia, Luis cambia, acéptale,

Leo, es tu hijo o quiérele,¿qué más da? no sé qué",

que la veo que sufre muchísimo,

porque es ver al hombre que quiereque está rechazando a su hijo.

lo veo como algo tambiénmuy doloroso.

-En las condiciones más ideales

de comprensiónen el entorno familiar,

de buena disposición por partede las instituciones escolares

y de todas las instituciones,de buen acceso a la sanidad,

de tratamientos bien llevados,

aun así, tenemos que tener muy claro

que es un procesode una enorme dureza

y que representapara la persona que lo hace

una exigencia personal muy grande.

Por eso, siempre insistimosque es un proceso

que necesita mucho acompañamientoy mucho apoyo.

-Y estoy a punto de pincharmepor primera vez testosterona.

¿Ya está?-Ya está.

-Luego, de sensaciones y tal,pues no noto absolutamente nada.

Obviamente, cambios no noto,

pero tampoco he tenidoningún efecto secundario,

ni ningún mareo,

como me habían dicho,que a lo mejor tendría,

ni insomnio, ni nada.

Hoy es un día importante, porquecumplo dos meses con testosterona

y porque hoy me siento muy bien,la verdad.

Estoy especialmente contentocon todo esto,

sobre todo al venir del gimnasio.

Sigo yendo al gimnasio y ya empiezoa ir cogiendo un poco de músculo.

Con el tema de la voz,

no se si se habrá cambiado,la verdad,

ahora lo compararé.

Gente con la que hablo,me dice que sí,

que me la nota más cambiada,

pero yo ya no me noto nada,

así que tendré que ir comparandoy tal.

Lo que más me importa ahora mismoes el pecho

para tenerlo lo mejor posiblepara la operación

y que a la hora de las cicatrices

dicen que te quedan mejorsi tienes el pectoral más definido.

Te pueden hacer la cicatrizmás precisa,

justo alrededor del pectoral

para que luego se puedaesconder mejor y se vea menos.

Para mí youtube fue una gran ayuda

y por eso veo tan importantecolaborar yo haciendo vídeos.

Por eso, empecé a hacer vídeos antes,

desde que empecé a plantearmeeste tema de mis dudas.

Toda mi adolescencia

y la parte de mi infanciaque recuerdo

es en Altea.

Tengo muy buenos recuerdos del pueblocada vez que voy,

es un sitio súper familiar para mi,estoy súper a gusto,

mantengo mis amistades de siempre.

-Leo, estamos a tres semanasde irnos para la operación.

-Ya.-¿Qué tal? ¿Te entra canguis o no?

No, le he dado vueltas,lo tengo tan mirado que no se...

-Yo sí que estoy preocupada, ¿eh?

A mí estar tan lejos,a tantos km de casa,...

Pasa cualquier cosa...

Menos mal que vamoscon otra persona también,

pero me impone bastante.

Bueno, ya hemos pagado muchas cosas,

¿pero no te echas atrásde ninguna manera?

-Que no mami, madre mía,si es que no pienso en otra cosa.

El pecho me hace sentirmesúper incomodo,

hay muchas situacionesen las que no puedo estar a gusto,

no me siento identificado,aunque esté solo, no ya por la gente,

de poder ir a la playay quitarme la camiseta,

sino estando solo es como "no mepertenece igualmente esa apariencia".

La decisión la tomé y estabapendiente de buscar un cirujano

y va a ser un cambio increíble.

Llevo una camiseta compresora,

es como una camiseta interior,

que me aprietasobre todo la zona del pecho.

Es de tirantesy me disimula más el pecho.

Pero yo en cuanto hay viento,soy consciente de que hay viento

y se me está marcando el pecho.

Haciendo deporte o andandopor la calle, cuando hay viento.

El concepto de invierno es como ¡uf!

Llevo más ropa,me despreocupo un poco del tema

porque no se va a ver.

Y verano es como "me gusta el calor,me gusta la playa, pero ¡pun!

Bajón de incomodidad".

-Ya te ha salido barbita y todo, ¿eh?-¿A ver esa patilla?

-Pues fuera de coña, probé lo queme dijisteis de la maquinilla esta

del pelo al mínimoy viene bien, ¿eh?, y tira.

Al final,¿te vas a Florida a operarte?

Ya ves, estoy ya con el gymponiéndome a tono.

El gimnasio. Let's see.

Voy a quitarme la chaquetapara enseñaros.

-¿Estás yendotodas las semanas o qué?

-Estoy yendo,sobre todo para la operación,

quiero mantenerloy hacer sobre todo pectoral

para que me quede lo mejor posiblela operación, los resultados.

-¿Cuánto tiempo tendrásque estar parado luego?

-Pues no lo sé, la verdad.

Supongo que un mes seguro,

y luego ya no sé cuanto tiempo más,si otro mes,...

-Brindis por la operación,que todo salga bien.

Y que se cumplan...-Pectorales tonificados.

-Very well.

La sociedad tiene que verque esto es normal, que los hay,

que no pasa nada,que esto hay que normalizarlo,

que no tiene por qué...

"son transexuales:un bicho raro",

no es un bicho raro, es un niño.

Son niños muy pequeñosy que sufren muchísimo.

Que no siempre son problemas,lo aceptas y punto, como familia,

como tu hijo que es o tu hija...

y se acabó.

-Ahora la veo y pienso:

"Todo lo que he hecho, madre mía,me ha merecido la pena".

Eso y más, que estoy orgullosísimade la hija que tengo,

pero me ha costado muchísimo.

-Claro que me hubiera gustadonacer ya chica,

sin tener ningún problema,

ni que mi madre lo pasara mal,ni se hubiera tenido que mover tanto,

ir a tantos médicos,psicólogos y todo.

Tampoco es malo ser transexual,

pero es mejor ser una persona normal.

Ser lo que tú quieras ser.

-La imagen que tienen que dares que son personas normales,

que viven en familias normalesy que no todas son prostitutas,

ni todas vienende una familia desestructurada,

ni de que tienen problemas,ni de que no pueden,

porque no es así.

-Patri, ahora,

yo tengo bastante preocupación,

porque el camino que ha elegidosupongo que no va a ser fácil.

Aquí está muy protegido

porque es un pueblo pequeño

y todo el mundo le conoce,

pero el mundo es muy grandefuera de aquí

y no sé qué pasará.

Me da algo de miedo, no por mí,porque no me pasa nada a mí,

por él.

-También creo que es un críomuy constante, muy valiente,

es una persona muy inteligente.

Entonces, yo espero,aparte de que tenga miedo

y creo que no me lo podré quitar,

el no trasmitirle ese miedopara no coartarle en que haga cosas,

porque yo creo

que tiene el mismo derechoque cualquier otro crío

en hacer cualquier cosa.

-Yo, si hubieran preguntadohace 15 años,

yo estaba lleno de prejuicios.

Si hubieran dicho:

¿te gustaría tenerun hijo transexual?

Hubiera dicho que no.

Ahora que tengo a Patri,

cambio mi opinióny diría que sí.

Por eso salimos, para decir:

"Si te pasa, no es el fin del mundo".

-Hay mucha gente que eso,que lo ve como un capricho,

que dice:

"Para que te metes en eso,si total es una tontería,

y al final vas a acabarmedio que sí, medio que no".

Pues no sé,

porque es lo que necesitopara ser feliz,

que yo salga a la calle y la genteme vea como yo me veo a mí,

Como Alejandro, como un chico.

-Ahora mismo nuestra idea es,probablemente,

cuando se haya operadoy empiece a hormonarse

y vaya todo el proceso más adelantadoy sepamos cómo va la cuestión médica,

pues buscar un trabajo fuera,irnos a vivir juntos,

pensaremos lo de los niñosy todo eso.

Así que, de momento,el futuro lo planeamos juntos.

-Hola, Eli, felicidades.

¿Qué tal?-Bien.

-Muy poquito a poco, pero sí,que creo que si está cambiando

el concepto que tiene la sociedadsobre la transexualidad.

Durante muchos años,desde siempre,

ha sido una palabra con mucho estigma

y asociadoa situaciones muy negativas

y pienso que esto está cambiandoy que va a cambiar más en el futuro.

Se acabará entendiendocomo una circunstancia más

que pueda tener un ser humano,que hay que afrontar y nada más.

Cuando veo a Eliy veo lo feliz que está

y cómo la apoya toda su familia,

como está haciendo ya cambios,con 10 años,

todas sus expectativas de futuro...,

me siento muy bien.

Sentir esperanza de que lo va a tenermucho más fácil,

tanto ella, como otros niños y niñasque están en su situación.

(Bienvenido a España).

-No puedo abrazaros,pero me podéis abrazar vosotros.

Abrázame, me dejo abrazar.

-Qué bien que hayas venido.

Hi guys.

Bueno, ya estoy de vuelta.

Quería enseñaros los resultadospara que veáis cómo ha quedado,

y bueno, decir que...,

bueno, me voy a ir quitandola camiseta,

que estoy muy contentocon los resultados.

Aquí me veis,

así que, bueno,

ya os iré contandosi hay alguna novedad,

aunque en principio, ya con esto,

acaban mis cambios físicosmás importantes

y bueno...ya contaré como avanza todo.

Venga chicos, hasta luego.

Bendita la diferenciaque nos balancea,

el mundo binaristade guapas de feas,

de gordas de flacas,

ganar y perder.

Quiero destrozar los mitosde inventar manías

y que seas siempremás tuya que mía,

porque así me gustasy te quiero ver.

Quiero comerme la vida,pero a mi manera,

mi media naranja,que es naranja entera,

fruta de verano,vitamina C...

Pero, ni yo soy tu dueño,ni te quiero atada,

ni boda de sueño,ni vida de esclava,

ni yo soy tu papa,ni tú eres mi nena,

yo hago de chulapasi hay una verbena.

Mmm, mmm...

Prefiero a la dama fuerteque a la desvalida

y aprender del mundocon cada caída,

navegando juntos en horizontal.

Y ahora que yo soy de Venusy también de Marte,

peras y manzanas para regalarte,

aunque no eres Eva,ni tampoco Adán.

Quiero ser fuego que enciendatu noche de Fallas,

el último beso de cuando te vayasy el primer abrazo de tu amanecer.

Y es que ni tu eres mi esposani yo tu marido,

mis mil y una cosas,mi sexo sentido,

yo whisky con cola,tu zumo de piña,

yo siempre a mi bola,yo niño, tú niña...

o al revés.

Hmm...

¿Cómo influye la dietaen nuestra salud?

¿Cómo debemos alimentarnos

para teneruna calidad de vida mejor?

Si nosotros sabemos

qué tipo de alimentaciónes la más apropiada

para nuestras células,

naturalmente que podemos modificarnuestro destino.

Nutrición, genéticay hábitos de vida,

condicionan nuestra salud.

La nutrigenética y la nutrigenómica

son la basede la nueva medicina preventiva.

¿Podremos escoger, en el futuro,

los alimentos que mejor se adaptena nuestro perfil genético?

Conocemos tu genoma

y esto es lo que te va a tocardentro de 30, 40 ó 50 años.

Precisamente,ahí es donde viene la nutrición,

donde vienen los estilos de vida,en realidad.

Y es que, sabiendolas características de tu genoma,

ese riesgo de la enfermedaddel que hablamos,

no es como una condena de muerte;

no es como la guillotina.

-Tienes esta predisposición genéticay eso no significa

que vayas a tenereste infarto cerebral.

Lo puedes neutralizar,pues... comiendo bien.

Tómatelo en serio,porque además, esto va en serio.

-Intentamos evitarque se comentan en diabéticos,

solamente con dietay con el ejercicio.

Entendemos que esto es el futuro.

Es verdadque la nutrición personalizada,

basada en criterios genéticos,

ya se puede aplicaren algunas personas concretas.

Cada día hayuna sensibilidad social mayor

sobre los beneficios y perjuiciosque pueden ocasionar los alimentos.

¿Cuales son sus propiedades,

qué pautas se deben seguirpara una dieta saludable?

Nosotros hemos hecho estudiosen que, entre horas,

sacamos células, damos un desayuno,

varios desayunos.

A las tres horas,volvemos a sacar esas células,

y las células,cuando el desayuno ha sido sano,

esas células tienen menos oscilación,menos inflamación, etc.

Eso quiere decir que para mejorary corregir nuestro organismo,

cualquier momento es bueno.

"La alimentación del futuro",

la próxima semana,en "Documentos TV".

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