I realised, at 28, that I've never been happy with my gender. It was a lucky discovery that helped me to understand a lot of problems and suffering, which I kept experiencing repeatedly over the years. But realising what the problem is, is just the first step along the path towards the salvage. It takes subsequent months or years to gain courage to come out, make a decision about starting the process, help to make understand yourself and the people in your life that, that is what you want, that you won't lose your identity, on the contrary, you’ll find it and will finally be yourself. It had been hard for me, to hide it from my loved ones, who I knew, would find it difficult to understand, accept and support me. So, I had to struggle alone with my own fear on one hand, and the lack of understanding and prejudice on the other. It's a long way but I've already completed most of it and I'm not far from the place I want to be in.