"For decades, Letícia Lanz presented herself to the world in the role of Geraldo Eustáquio. Understanding yourself differently from most was a long and painful process. In this moving and honest account, Letícia recounts what it was like to come out as a transgender woman at the age of fifty.
Letícia Lanz is a psychoanalyst, speaker, activist and was a candidate for mayor of Curitiba in 2020. She is married with three children and five grandchildren. In this impactful book, she tells the story of her transition. The struggle to free herself from the bonds of gender began when she was still a child and culminated in a heart attack fifty years later. After a life marked by the permanent conflict between being herself or the person society demanded she to be, in the ICU bed, she understood that transitioning was the only thing to do if she wanted to stay alive.
