Teen transgender launches pop star career [video]
”I know that because of my past people will always bring up the subject, I can’t get away from it. But I hope that one day I might be better known for my music than for my past.”
Kim Petras, a 16-year-old MTF transgender from Germany who just launched her first pop music record. She is reported to possibly be the youngest person in the world to have started gender transition therapy at 12. (TheSun.co.uk)
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