Eli Ruiz, who turns 17 this week, listens to pop, plays volleyball and is in 1st year of high school with an average grade of 8. He wears large silver earrings and blue locks between his long brown hair.
And she enjoys going out with her friends in Fuenlabrada, the municipality of Madrid where she lives.
Eli and his mother have spoken with EL PAÍS by video call to talk, among other things, about the draft of the
trans law
.
Violeta looks at her with rapture, sitting next to her in the living room.
Since she was very little, she had to deal with her questions, such as the one she asked when she was five years old: “Mom, who was wrong with me?
God, doctors or Mother Nature?
She says that her daughter was always clear about it, while the world around her, including herself, tried to get used to the idea.
Her husband assimilated it better than she, who needed to go to the psychologist "in the face of vertigo and fear" to make a mistake with the girl.
At the age of 11 and a half, Eli Ruiz began to take the hormonal blockers that slow down puberty.
"I needed them, my testosterone was starting to go up," he explains.
Since 2017, he has combined an injection of blockers every three months with estrogen patches, the cross-hormone treatment.
The young woman assures that she reflected it well before taking the step with the hormone: "Everyone told me to think it over, but I was very clear about it," she explains.
