Stockholm
To tell what happened to her daughter, Asa prefers to show the album where she took a picture of her, every month, from the age of 14.
“That's the time when Johanna started cutting her hair very short, putting on a chest bandage to flatten it,” she
begins. The pictures follow one another, the smile disappears, the face becomes emaciated:
“She fell ill, anorexia. At the hospital, I noticed she was following transgender accounts on social media. She told me that she suffered from gender dysphoria, that she couldn't stand her body anymore… She decided to become Kasper, a boy. "
His face then appears more assertive, dyed hair, manly air.
And then, at 19, Johanna reappears as a girl, an enigmatic glint in her eyes:
“It's a journey that lasted two long years,”
Asa is moved.
My daughter changed her gender, her identity, but then she had the immense courage to admit her mistake.
I am very proud of her. ”
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