Transitioning into Life | Tencent “Living”
Zhou Qiang—Tencent “Living”
As a transgender woman from a remote village in Yunnan province, Ji Danuo experienced severe discrimination. She decided to move to Kunming where she met her partner, Lu Hua. The two have been together for two years. In this piece from Tencent’s “Living” Channel, photographer Zhou Qiang follows Ji’s quest to save enough money for sex reassignment surgery in Thailand. The surgery will allow her to change her legal status as a woman, but she wonders whether it will also change people’s attitudes toward her.
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As a transgender woman from a remote village in Yunnan province, Ji Danuo experienced severe discrimination. She decided to move to Kunming where she met her partner, Lu Hua. The two have been together for two years. In this piece from Tencent’s “Living” Channel, photographer Zhou Qiang follows Ji’s quest to save enough money for sex reassignment surgery in Thailand. The surgery will allow her to change her legal status as a woman, but she wonders whether it will also change people’s attitudes toward her.