Veteran Wants To Be Accepted As A Woman

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

At 35 years after having served in the Falklands War, the Argentine Osvaldo Marrine faces another no less difficult battle: to be accepted as a woman.

According to the Buenos Aires newspaper Clarín, the 52-year-old veteran has Klinefelter syndrome, a chromosomal alteration that consists of the existence of two X and one Y chromosomes, instead of XX or XY.

The ex-combatant reveals that since elementary school she had an internal war between being a man or a woman, but that conditioned by her family she had to follow the male course. Even while fighting as a soldier in the Falklands when you were 18 you already felt a feminine inclination, although you could not manifest it in the trenches under the bombing of the British Army.

On his return to his country, when he turned 21, he consulted a specialist who gave him the diagnosis of the syndrome he suffers from. But still unable to change sex, he began a testosterone treatment that masculinized him, made him grow a beard and experienced changes at the sexual level, to the point that he married and had two children.

But two years ago she decided to end that testosterone treatment because she said it caused a hormonal imbalance, sudden character changes, and even aggressiveness.

The effects did not wait and, in addition to feeling better, her body underwent a metamorphosis: her breasts grew and her waist thinned, while she lost body hair. Since he was no longer living with his wife by then, he decided to become a Tahiana.

With that new identity, she went to the commemoration of one of the Maldivian anniversaries, where she assures that she felt very comfortable seeing how the other ex-combatants received her and treated her with respect.

Those who are not finding it easy to accept him as a woman are his family. "I have three siblings who stopped talking to me when I gave up testosterone. I hope that this situation will be reversed someday, "he said.