'At the age of 50, Didier, married and father of two children, became aware of who he was: a woman, Delphine. This evidence, repressed during thirty years of malaise and wanderings, carries everything in her path: her wife who claims a divorce, her children who reject her, and her parents who do not accept her trans-identity.
Delphine navigates between the hope of finally living fully and the despair which sometimes returns, like a painful leitmotif: "Dead rather than trans". It is the story of her transition that she tells us, between her first outings dressed as a woman and medical tourism, but also a fight: that for the recognition of transgender people by society. It is neither a choice, a mental pathology, nor a question of sex.
For this very reason, she refutes the term 'transsexuality'. But, in the twenty-first century, the state is still reluctant to grant trans people their rights: why is it so complicated to change their marital status? Why are they forced to undergo surgery and sterilization? How to find an employer and travel without unpacking your private life when your identity card does not match your physique?'
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