"It starts with a kid who has a kid's body and the audacity of a hero. It continues with a sixteen-year-old boy who knows he is a girl, who has strong convictions and freedom in mind. Then the war of 1940 shakes the world and the teenager who dresses as a girl in the secrecy of closed rooms, finds himself facing the Gestapo. Rather strange fate for the woman, born a man, who will spend her life simply saying: "I am not who you believe".
"At the same time, artist, fighter, teacher, and mayor, in the midst of the worst torments, in torture, the concentration camp, as well as after, in normal life, the unifying bond, the carrier, the deep substance that makes it possible to take everything, the atrocious suffering as well as the male disguise, it is poetry."
According to Wikipedia, Ovida Delect (1926-1996) was a French poet, politician, and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. In February 1944 she was arrested by the Gestapo for being a member of the National Front, a movement created by the French Communist Party (PCF). She was tortured and deported to a German concentration camp.
After the war, she finished her university education and became a writer. In 1952, she met her future wife Huguette, a kindergarten teacher from Sarthe. They had a son, Jean-Noel. In 1953, Ovida read about the transition of Christine Jorgensen in the press and recognized the similarity between their lives. At the beginning of the 1960s, Delect, under her birth name Jean-Pierre Voidies, became mayor of Freneuse, a small town in Île-de-France. She transitioned socially into a female at the age of 55 and continued to live with Huguette Voidies, her wife, and their son in Saint Pierre Alizay. She died on 9 October 1996.
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