"Katrin Lindemann is very lady: the hairstyle fits, a strong red adorns the full lips, the eye shadow emphasizes the dark eyes, the yellow top contrasts with the black hair. Only the slightly deeper voice and the firm pressure of the strong hands give an idea of what the dark-haired woman has complained about throughout her life: Katrin Lindemann is transsexual, she was a man – before.
Bad Schwartau – After a long period of suffering, the 54-year-old has finally mastered the sex change that she prefers to call reassignment – from man to woman, as she has always felt. In a process lasting many years, which was very difficult and painful for her, her wish came true: the boy Reiner Lindemann, born in 1948 in Frankfurt/Oder, who was married twice and fathered two children with his wives, finally became Katrin. The individual that she always wanted to be, »that I had to be«, as Katrin asserts."
"As a transsexual, the Bad Schwartau resident is one of the few thousand people in Germany who still have to stand up to widespread intolerance in society because of their feelings. And who understand their illness as a »curse of birth«, as Katrin Lindemann knows from her own experience. Transsexuality, recently also referred to as gender identity disorder, is now officially recognized in Germany, but there is a lack of acceptance.
Katrin Lindemann has a life of confusion and concealment, hiding her feelings and her most secret desires from intolerant, but possibly only ignorant contemporaries."
Available via genderwunderland.de
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