Research in Germany

It certainly requires some deep thinking, consideration and reflection to imagine disliking the own body so strongly, that one just wants to get rid of it. Well, maybe thats only because I belong to those who feel at home in their body. Okay, if I had built this body myself, I had chosen a different architect. And even more so, the first repair works would already be due. But home, I'm really at home in my own body.
My first encounter:
There she sits vis-à-vis, I call her Kim. Ravishingly beautiful, androgynous, and younger than I first thought she would be. Not that she would look older, she appears mature considering her age. She seems doubtless. Deliberate.
She tells me that she just started hormonal treatment or that she is in the offspring to it. She is talking so frankly, jauntily that it sounds just like a small but logical decision.
Even her environment - in her job, her parents, her friends - they all seem to accept the decision.
At first I feel like a journalist, who just can't write without any conflict, determined to look for problems.
But you came from the country side, I am asking. Is there no hostility, no insults? Well; she says as jauntily as if she was embracing her enemy; I'm just not listening to what they say.
Then she just smiles these images away. It is a really beautiful smile. It is the smile of a young woman.

Michael Wolf, actor from "Die Gorillas", Berlin (Germany) on the research phase with Transgender people in Berlin.