In 1930, at the dawn of the Nazi totalitarian regime, a Danish man named Einar Wegener was in Germany in search of identity. The threshold of fifty years, This man had decided to embark on a path that would change and unfortunately put an end to their existence: Einar wanted to become a woman in all respects.
Einar was a Danish artist who was married at the age of twenty-two with a colleague named Gerda Gottlieb. The two were illustrators: Einar ran mostly to paint landscapes, While Gerda primarily for some fashion magazines. Together they travelled a lot all around Europe, and in 1912 They settled in Paris.
Both very talented artists, Einar resigned however to its success to better support his wife, that thanks to the help and advice of her husband had the opportunity to exhibit their work in several important art galleries.
It was during this period that Einar began increasingly to manifest the desire to be a woman: with the backing and support of the young wife started just for fun to pose as a model for paintings of Gerda in the privacy of their home.
During the 1920s, Einar disguised in women's clothes to many parties and participated to some public events. The questions of the curious, the pair replied that Lili Elbe – this was the female name chosen by Einar's own alter ego cloths when dressed – He was a distant cousin of Gerda visiting Paris.
Only a few friends were actually aware of transsexuality of Einar and his path to rediscovery of itself, and maybe the only Gerda understood thoroughly the sense of frustration and discomfort with whom the husband had to live.
Einar consulted several doctors who obliged him to intrusive anti deviance and catalogued as a patient with schizophrenia; However, the late 1920s he met a German surgeon willing to help you.
Just to get rid of the body in which no recognized, Einar went to Germany and underwent five dangerous surgeries to the final exchange of sex, the last of which proved fatal.
Recognized as the first transsexual woman in history subjected to sexual conversion operations, the story of Lili strikes again today for the relevance of the themes that tells; in the 21st century we still struggle to talk about these issues, often considered taboo and shameful. Of these topics, Instead, would do well to talk: There shouldn't be anything, In fact, most sacred and natural prosecution of identity and happiness.
Maria