Cecilia Gentili

Go to the bar.

And when I finish working, we'll meet and we talk more.

And that's what I did.

I waited all night in the bar.

And then she told me, you know, yeah, you know, you can be trans.

It's three things that you need to know.

You're going to be a whore.

You're going to get high.

And you're going to die young.

Those are the three things that you need to know and be clear about before making the decision of transitioning.

And I didn't doubt it for a minute.

I said, yes, yes, and yes, I'm okay with all of those.

I thought that, you know, that was the only way to survive, right?

It wasn't like the idea of having a job while being trans was not possible.

The idea of, you know...

Being a housewife, you know, and having a husband that takes care of you, it wasn't possible because, like, anybody, you know, usually all the men that I dated at the time were dating me under this extreme shaming, you know, cloud where, like,

They used to say that they were my boyfriend just in between, you know, four walls in a room, but nobody would hold my hand in the street, you know?

So it was like, hey, you know, all these guys want to have sex with me.

Nobody wants to be my boyfriend.

So I may as well just get some money out of it, you know, and survive.