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The transsexual who condemned Bulgaria in Strasbourg, due to the court’s refusal to change gender and name in her personal documents, spoke for the first time. Petar Hristov feels like a woman since childhood.
The story of an ordinary boy who became a girl. With these words begins the book of 24-year-old Petra from Gorna Oryahovitsa, nee Petar Hristov.
However, after hormone therapy and surgeries, there are still no records that say “female”. Even after the operation she was denied new identity documents.
“I had two options after the new refusals: to sue Bulgaria in Strasbourg or after some time to move to a new address, but this too was an option with many question marks. I decided to condemn Bulgaria for violating human rights . I condemned the state, not the country. Now I’m waiting to receive the new documents on which Petra will be written, with female gender”
“Petra was a little boy who grew up to be a brave woman,” she says Bulgaria on the air.
“To go through this whole transition, an internal struggle is required. I am happy, but there are things that I am missing. I am at the beginning of my new life,” said Petra.
“I’ve studied English, Korean, Greek and Turkish, but I don’t have a job yet,” she says.
