Original title: "Caminhos Tortuosos de uma Transgénero" (Tortuous Paths of a Transgender) by Francisca Solange Vaz Martins.
'Tortuous paths, freedom restricted to the will of the other, life in captivity, no guilt, no crime. Injustice, frustration, unceasing search. Massocratic stereotypes, dignity of the dying human person, struck at every moment. The war for liberation, fought for decades, alone.
Finally, she had finished, the beginning of the path always dreamed of, her own managed to prevail. - Now, in freedom, I could say it out loud!!! ... - In all the paths I've traveled all my life, I didn't mean to be a psychologist!
I didn't want to be a lawyer! Lawyer or Historian! Not even a thinker or writer! wanted to be, just and only, a woman!!!!! ... I am finally. My own - The Francisca Solange.