'I remember myself as a kid, playing with my brother. They used to say 'boys'. And of course, I was a boy since we did exactly the same things. What was valid for one was valid for the other: clothes, entertainment, toys, Meccano, life. So why this weird feeling that we were different? That I wasn't in the same world? That what I wanted was my sisters' world, their own world? That's where I wanted to go.'
In January 2010, the Grand Orient of France accepted for the first time a woman as a member of the obedience. And what a woman! For more than fifty years, Olivia Chaumont lived in the body envelope of a man but, deep down, she always knew she was different. At the dawn of 2007, she decided to have surgery in Thailand to live in her real skin, that of a woman.
