It Is All About Saving A Life

They say we are selfish when we transition, that we don’t think about others but it is the exact opposite. We are worried about others and that is one of the reasons we didn’t transition earlier, and it is not until we reach a point where we realize that we can’t live any long without transitioning.

Transgender actress Talisa Garcia says transitioning saved her life
Pink News
By Patrick Kelleher 
18th February 2019

Transgender actress Talisa Garcia has said that transitioning to female, and undergoing gender reassignment surgery at 18 years old, saved her life.

The 45 year old actress, who is currently starring in BBC miniseries Baptiste, made the revelation about her experiences as a transgender woman in an interview with the Telegraph.

In the interview, Garcia revealed that she attempted suicide when she was a teenager, which led to her opening up about her gender identity.

“As soon as they gave it a name, everything became better,” Garcia said. Several years later, she underwent surgery, and told her parents: “If I don’t wake up, it’s fine. If I can’t have the operation, I won’t be here anyway.”
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Talisa Garcia also said that nobody has ever questioned her gender identity, which made her more inclined to keep her experience a secret.

That is what happens when you transition at a very young age, you can integrate in to society. When you have a lifetime of testosterone soaking into your every pore it is much, much harder to integrate in to society without being identified as trans.

However, the actress said she has had difficult experiences with romantic partners – some of whom have not been accepting.

In one painful break-up, she fled Spain where she was living after she told a boyfriend and his family that she was transgender, saying that they “really” didn’t accept her.

That is something that affects the young and old; finding love.

There are a few trans women who do find love but the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found almost half of us are single.

P.S. In the mini-series Baptiste she is playing the part of a trans woman... a trans woman playing a trans woman, not some cisgender actor in trans-face.