"....Jin Xing, a 27-year-old Army colonel, quivered with trepidation as he lay alone in the Chinese hospital room.
His father, also a military officer,
didn’t know why Jin was going under the knife and, as he rushed to the clinic, worried that his son had suffered a medical emergency. It was the Chinese Lunar New Year festival, the traditional time for family reunions. “My father walked in, looked at me, and asked, ‘Why are you here?’ ” recalls Jin. “That’s when I told him I was going to have a sex-change operation the next day to become a woman.”
Jin’s father paused, inhaled deeply on his cigarette, and
said,
“Finally, you’ll be matched up. All these years he secretly knew I was born the wrong gender.” --- Reports
Newsweek and the hermaphrodite Jin Xing shared how she lived as a soldier in the military and then transformed into a woman who now performs as a dancer...