Kayo Satoh, born in 1988, a Japanese model, YouTube vlogger, and television personality, tells her story of the pain she experienced in a society that didn’t understand her and her male-to-female transition.
She started her hormone therapy at the age of 15. Suffering from gender identity disorder, she had to face a lot of challenges in junior high school, and she ran away from home after graduation. After working part-time at a convenience store, her friend introduced her to the long-sought women's clothing department store. Six months later, she was scouted by a fashion magazine and introduced to the president of a modeling agency.
In 2008, a Nagoya local fashion magazine published her photos and her modeling career started for good. In 2010, she came out as a transgender woman. On June 23, 2011, she released her first book "Re-born", which includes her first semi-nude photos.
