“I put Veronica on standby, now I’m Michele”. Having been in transition for a year and a half, the Terni court is about to give the green light to the interventions: “I have had a lot of suitors, now there is more transophobia towards me than before

I’m a hot girl, I’ve had a lot of suitors: if I had been heterosexual, today I would be married and have four children.” And instead, Veronica is now (almost) Michele. “I’m a seafarer, the first transsexual sailor. In fact I’m doing documents and visits. But I’m about to embark. And this is the beginning of my freedom.”

Michele’s new life begins on November 13th when the Terni court acquired the documents and is preparing to give the green light to the trial for the surgical interventions to remove the ovaries and the uterus. “It’s the beginning of my freedom” he tells Ternitoday explaining some of the steps he has taken to date, assisted by his lawyer, the lawyer Alessandro Gentiletti: “I borrow – comments the lawyer – what Andrew Beckett responds in Philadelphia to asks ‘what do you like about law? The fact that once in a while… not always, but sometimes… it becomes an integral part of justice applied to reality. It’s a truly exciting experience when this happens.”

“In a few

In a few months, my new name will be written on the documents. In the meantime, however, the testosterone is attacking, I’m a walking hormonal bomb”, says Michele. Born 39 years ago in Torre del Greco (“recently turned, I’m not yet forty”) he says he has had “the attraction since I was little towards women.” “My first love was my first grade teacher.” Then an important affair at 13 with one of her peers, then yet another.

At 22 he decides to tell his mother everything. “She understood me, asking me if I was happy. But I didn’t accept my body, I didn’t love myself anymore.” While his family, mother and younger brother, understand his torments and welcome his choices. And so, some time later, at 28 years old, he decides to change and start his transition journey.

“I saw myself as ugly, I always felt like a man.” Even if without understanding why. “Speaking to the psychologist, he also tried to tell me that this could have been due to the fact that he had lost my father and therefore had somehow tried to replace his figure. But my father died when I was 8 years old and he was 28 , victim of a road accident. And I already felt like a man. I was born like this. Unfortunately, there is little talk about gender dysphoria, too little

And Veronica? “I put her on standby, but I thank her. Paradoxically, now I feel more transophobia than before. The secret, my weapon is self-irony. And I can’t wait to be able to take a woman out for dinner without having everyone’s eyes on him.”