JustPearlyThings - Trans Gender Woman Describes Her Transformation

In this episode, we have a special guest, who shares her story of growing up in a conservative family in Venezuela and how she was able to transition from a tomboy to a feminist. We talk about the challenges she faced growing up as a child and how her family treated her, and how they allowed her to be who she wanted to be.

00:00:00.000 they will never read it so i and you don't have to answer this if it's offensive at all but you

00:00:05.040 said you transitioned you started like transitioning from four yeah like that that sounds a bit sad to

00:00:12.000 me because it's like how did you how did you know what you wanted at four you know because i and i

00:00:18.960 just say this because i was a bit of a tomboy you know but because like they let me choose what how

00:00:24.080 i wanted to wait well so because for example it was monday morning and i had to go to school

00:00:29.840 obviously in venice back in venezuela i had to wear the uniform so it was neutral because in my school

00:00:36.160 like the girls wouldn't even wear skirts because it was an evangelistic okay school and like everyone

00:00:43.440 was wearing jeans yeah we had a similar and the polar t-shirt because they wanted like everyone

00:00:49.360 to be the same yeah but then like in on the daily things they will let me choose what i wanted to do

00:00:57.280 and like any whatever i was inclined for they would accept it because they were like a

00:01:04.160 whoever she wants to be i want we want her happy to be who she wants to be and why we will have to

00:01:12.800 like preclude someone to not be to someone to not be someone that they don't want to be so when did you

00:01:20.240 start like growing your hair out wearing makeup how old are you i said so basically because my families

00:01:25.840 are really so my family is they're politicians and my from my grandmother's side becomes from the

00:01:32.320 aristocrat family from spain i had to wait like all my cousins until i became 13 to wear makeup

00:01:40.320 presumably venezuela is quite traditional as well though right i mean is it a fairly conservative

00:01:44.400 sort of country um yeah it's very christian it's a kind of similar to brazil and but it can it can be

00:01:52.320 even worse right because brazil as it's like a portuguese community and it's a portuguese colony 0.50

00:02:01.680 it's more on their own yeah brazil's like the only place in south america that we don't we're not

00:02:08.880 hispanic we're latina but we're not hispanic we have the same views but it's more like western

00:02:14.160 but still then it's still very so but still then it's like very conservative yeah yeah the whole of

00:02:19.520 south america but brazil is mostly western right yeah yeah i mean i do imagine your parents or your

00:02:25.520 family must be somewhat liberal yeah that was the point that was the point like my my grandfather and

00:02:33.440 his political streak he's always been on the opposition like opposition to the communism

00:02:41.760 oh he's not a communist no no no no because like for example venezuela it's a it's a communist country

00:02:47.760 now like nothing comes out of venezuela no infos nothing goes in it's becoming like even more and more

00:02:56.320 every year like um south in our north career like even me like sometimes i can't even talk to my family

00:03:04.160 because they don't have internet oh wow and then like sometimes and i as i said my grandmother she's

00:03:10.640 suffering of dementia and my mom too they both gone together at the same time and i am the one like

00:03:17.600 now trying to help sometime somehow like trying to speak with the with the nurse and i'm like

00:03:23.120 sometimes i'm even having like three weeks where i don't know i don't know anything about them and

00:03:29.280 i'm like um i always say like uh i always wait for a signal like from i don't know from god or whatever

00:03:39.600 because anyway they always say that if you're really close to your family you're gonna feel when

00:03:43.520 someone is gone and i remember even when i felt my grandfather when my grandfather died

00:03:48.800 like no one told me but i felt like someone killed me

00:03:57.760 and that's i what i can think of like of a man of a woman as well of um you know as far as of a high

00:04:07.520 level of high standards is when they teach you like a that love goes no matter what

00:04:14.720 you just don't need money you just don't need anything else

00:04:21.840 i'm really surprised your family was so um accepting it sounds like they're conservative

00:04:29.520 so like i think it's uh

00:04:33.600 yeah they were but with me they always had like that um i don't know it's probably because i was

00:04:43.840 born premature and stuff so they were like okay let's keep her on a bubble but like not too much and

00:04:52.560 and as well like they had examples of other families where like i don't know the kid was

00:04:59.120 really like turning against their family and uh plus as well by being a family always constantly under

00:05:07.120 the the lights and stuff like that they didn't want like even as well like you know like having a

00:05:13.680 granddaughter or grandson at 16 years old that hangs himself and end up on the newspaper

00:05:22.960 like if it's something that i would have they wanted to accept you yeah and as well like i

00:05:28.400 i think it's something that i will have to sit down with my grandmother which is like

00:05:34.080 on her 90s but in her head she's 25 and she's telling me how she's living her best life at 25 years

00:05:40.800 old and i'm like all right you know i was just banned on tick tock and we are demonetized on a daily

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JustPearlyThings - April 21, 2023

Trans Gender Woman Describes Her Transformation

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