This is the third book by Ella Marques. "I was born a boy, from Venus: It's time to be yourself" (2017) was the first autobiography of Ella Marques. In 2020, she published her second book: "Coming Home to Venus: The story of a woman transitioning to her real self".
"Eva’s World is the story of a transgender pansexual hard-working woman that travels the world for business and pleasure. She and her three friends Linda, Olympia and Victoria come together regularly, talk about their lives, their loves and their expectations. Two of these girls are transgender, the other two are cisgender - their lives and expectations are similar, just some small differences. This is a positive book about life as a very privileged transgender person, about traveling, about fun, expectations but above all about love. Yes, transgender women are women. They live, they love, and they can be quite normal. All I ask is that you open your eyes."
I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Ella Marques twice, in 2017 and 2020, and I asked her about passing: "I think we are prisoners of our own Dysphoria, yes passing is very important too, but it is the way you look at yourself. I see most of the time that the passing syndrome is mainly motivated by the way you look yourself in front of the mirror, but this is not enough. Let me try to explain what I mean, passing is not only related to the way you look, the behavior is very important as well, the talking, and I don’t mean pitch alone but the words you use and how you talk.You can be a not-so-beautiful feminine-looking transgender woman and still pass in society. But when a transgender person looks in the mirror, she (or he) wants to look at the evolution from the dead person she (or he) was. If you see some leftovers of your previous life, you want to remove them. Ok sometimes it is vanity as well, we just want to look attractive, nothing wrong with that. I know many gorgeous feminine trans girls that when they open their mouths it is clear that they do not pass. All is a choice. I am lucky to see my mother when I see myself in the mirror."
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