Francisca Martins - Caminhos Tortuosos de uma Transgénero

2020, Francisca Solange Vaz Martins, Portugal, Portuguese,

Original title: "Caminhos Tortuosos de uma Transgénero" (Tortuous Paths of a Transgender) by Francisca Solange Vaz Martins.

'Tortuous paths, freedom restricted to the will of the other, life in captivity, no guilt, no crime. Injustice, frustration, unceasing search. Massocratic stereotypes, dignity of the dying human person, struck at every moment. The war for liberation, fought for decades, alone.

Finally, she had finished, the beginning of the path always dreamed of, her own managed to prevail. - Now, in freedom, I could say it out loud!!! ... - In all the paths I've traveled all my life, I didn't mean to be a psychologist!

I didn't want to be a lawyer! Lawyer or Historian! Not even a thinker or writer! wanted to be, just and only, a woman!!!!! ... I am finally. My own - The Francisca Solange.

Francisca Solange Vaz Martins is a Portuguese lawyer and transgender activist. As she says she was trapped inside herself by living most of her life in a man's body and feeling like a woman. In 2014, neither the 37-year-old's marriage - which she maintains - nor her three children moved her from the dream of breaking free.

After the transition, she advocates the right of the Portuguese transgender community, pushing for legal changes that should improve the situation of transgender people in Portugal. '

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