She lives officially as a woman - without gender reassignment. She fought for this right legally for all people. She put an end to state coercion, which treated men with this disposition as "life worthless" and forced many to undergo sex reassignment, which they themselves regard as mutilation. The right that has been won applies to both sexes, including women who want to live as men. But her fight isn't over - and she has a lot to say...
Sharp and precise, but at the same time soulful, spiritual, and entertaining, Monika Donner describes how she found herself and her freedom. Courageously and proudly, she takes the essential path for all of us: finally being human again!
MONIKA DONNER is known for numerous TV programs. She was born as a boy, graduated from a Jesuit college, was an officer in the army, and currently works as a lawyer in the Austrian Ministry of Defence. She is also a life and social counselor. She lives in a hetero-lesbian partnership with a woman and is writing the screenplay for her first film.
In 2014, I talked with Monika about this book and this is what she told me: "The impulse to write “Tiger in High Heels” came when I heard the inhumane speech of Pope Benedict in December 2008. It sounded to me like a diabolic witch hunt against all kinds of individualism. I felt that I had to defend the inner child of all transgender against old men wanting to rape it."
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