Who Is Luly Brazil?

   My name is Luly. I’m a Trans girl. Born In a humble city in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. My city is the second biggest city in the whole state, and also one of the most violent ones.

    It didn’t take much for me to realize I was a trans woman. Since I was born, I always knew I was special, that something was different in me, in my mind, in my heart. During my childhood,  I was very popular between friends and other kids. I was a leader in the school, part of the band also made part of the church choir.

    My transition started around 17 -18  years old, and after I started to change, and many things also changed with it. But Many things changed when society started to see the special things I knew I had in me. Because of this transition, I lost family and friends’ friendship. People started to see me not as special as I was still seeing myself, and also treated me different, even though I was still the same person.

    Life wasn’t easy or pretty anymore, but I didn’t give up! I started to focus on the people that were still around me. Those people were the ones that matter the most. That was the good side of having a huge family with more than 15 uncles and around 31 cousins (last time I counted ). I was very poor but I was happy, there were all for me.

    My wish was to keep on trying to be outside as special as I was inside, but I also wanted my outside to reflect the beauty I had in me. So I started my hormones, and it worked!  I finally became the Trans Woman I wanted to be.  Although with it came many aspects that only other transgender girl like me would understand. I found out that Brazil was the country that kills more Transgender Girls In the world. I lived the prejudice, violence, unfortunately, I was pimped out, and sold from other Ts girls. These things came also with the change. But I didn’t give up!

    I graduated as a school teacher, but people didn’t want to hire me, then I graduate as a fashion designer, and unfortunately, I experienced transphobia from the fashion LGBT community at the time. So when I was tired of all that. I decided to find a job that no one could ever be able to fire or not accept me for being Ts. I taught myself English and became a Camgirl. Finally this was the first job that changed my life and made me happy to be who I was. With it, I bought my house, I improved my knowledge, I made part of my dreams come true. Finally I found that I belong somewhere.