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'Ask the Buddha' revealed the story of a 32-year-old transgender woman who became estranged from her family after undergoing gender confirmation surgery.
On the 13th, the KBS Joy variety program 'Ask the Buddha' featured a 32-year-old transgender woman who works as a beatmaker as a guest sharing her story.
The guest said, "I underwent gender confirmation surgery from male to female. Since coming out, I feel like I have become very distant from my family, and that is my biggest concern."

Upon hearing this, Lee Su-geun said, "This time, I really didn't know. I just thought her style was cool. I've met many guests who came out before, but she was the hardest to recognize. Her voice too; I really didn't know."
Seok Jang-hoon asked, "When did you have the surgery?" and the guest replied, "I had it in 2023."
The guest then recalled, "I felt my identity since elementary school. When I linked arms with a classmate, I felt strange from that moment on. I think I realized my identity from then."

She also said, "When I was 20, I came out to my parents and friends, saying, 'I will live as a woman from now on.' Before going to the military, I told my father, 'Even if I return from the army without my mind changing, I will live as a woman.'"
She confessed, "After finishing my military service, I told him that my desire to live as a woman had not changed. My father said, 'Get out. You are no longer my child from today, so don't show your face.' That's when I was kicked out of the house and began living in a boarding house."
She added, "From then on, I started living as a woman outwardly by growing my hair and wearing skirts."
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