'I remember myself as a kid, playing with my brother. They used to say 'boys'. And of course, I was a boy since we did exactly the same things. What was valid for one was valid for the other: clothes, entertainment, toys, Meccano, life. So why this weird feeling that we were different? That I wasn't in the same world? That what I wanted was my sisters' world, their own world? That's where I wanted to go.'
In January 2010, the Grand Orient of France accepted for the first time a woman as a member of the obedience. And what a woman! For more than fifty years, Olivia Chaumont lived in the body envelope of a man but, deep down, she always knew she was different. At the dawn of 2007, she decided to have surgery in Thailand to live in her real skin, that of a woman.
A vivid and moving testimony, D'un corps à l'autre retraces without false modesty an exceptional life itinerary. Not hesitating to evoke the unexpected and sometimes dramatic consequences that a change of gender can entail, Olivia Chaumont addresses very concretely the issue of transsexuality. Its goal: to make known and understand to the general public what is the life and situation of trans people today. More sensitive than sensational, this book is above all the story of a life and a struggle.
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