Today, in Sweden, you can become a woman or a man legally without having to undergo sterilization and gender reassignment. But that wasn't the case when Vanessa López was a 17-year-old boy. Therefore, she then chose to begin the treatment that would correct the body to the soul. For the choice to undergo physical gender reassignment, she has paid a heavy price.
In the book, Vanessa talks about the methods she had to resort to become the woman she is today. How, as a minor teenager, she ended up on the street where a single misstep could lead to risky situations, and how the health care system treated a teenager who was stuck in the wrong body, something that neither she nor society could accept.
