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Inspecting a truck is a routine task in the military and traditionally considered a man's job.
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Go Anastasia be.
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Fong is transgender.
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She's been living as a woman for some time and no longer identifies as a man.
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Okay, be Fong is responsible for 700 soldiers in the Bundeswehr.
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She took the major step of coming out after 20 years of military service.
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Coming out as being transgender for me wasn't very easy.
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Transgender was something in the early 19 was that was going to school, a topic that wasn't discussed anywhere?
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Um, you couldn't google anything yet.
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It was something that was always connected.
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My own feelings with shame don't do that.
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It's wrong.
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I don't think there was very much acceptance in society in the nineties for transgender people at all.
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Back when be, Fong lived as a man.
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She was married to a woman and let a seemingly ordinary life.
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But she felt tremendous emotional pain because her male body simply wasn't right for her.
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E probably looked for flight into a typical male role.
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The military probably helped that in that sense as well to perform two male standards, but my inner self was always crying after them, almost 20 years was struggling.
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Um, I was at a point in my life where my emotional stability, my emotional well being well being was at the Congress that I don't want to live this way anymore.
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Be Fong underwent sex change surgery, she continued in her old job after coming out as a woman putting on makeup is now part of her everyday routine.
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Her second wife, Samantha, whom she met before undergoing surgery, has supported her from the start way.
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E met Anna as a woman.
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Already, Andi one can say she was just the one with the Penis, so actually the same person stayed.
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I knew that she wanted to get rid off the pennies on.
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I think when you love a person, you support the person.
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Coming out as a transgender woman wasn't a stumbling block in her career.
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Even in the military, Sergeant Major Dietmar Schroeder met Anastasia Be Fong after her sex reassignment.
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He says the initial novelty quickly wore off even as transgenderism became a hotly debated issue worldwide, it wasn't true, e just accept that people are the way they are and that goes beyond transgenderism.
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I feel the same way about other Mawr everyday things like what party they vote for.
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What make of car.
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They like to take um, or run of the mill example.
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You just have to accept people the way they are.
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E.
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Now Anastasia be Fong is climbing higher up the career ladder.
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She'll become the head of the division in the Buddhist cyber and information domain service in parallel to her military career.
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It is her mission to stand up for transgender people in the German armed forces, promoting diversity and greater tolerance for what is an unusual path.
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What I know from my experience is what is definitely certain.
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If you are true to yourself and live the way you are awkwardly open, you will have a better life.
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I think my mom once said it.
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She seems to be finally happy.
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Mhm.