La villa 8 (TFX): First transgender candidate says ‘I tried to kill myself’

La villa 8 (TFX): First transgender candidate says ‘I tried to kill myself’

Starting Monday, April 3, Lucie Mariotti “La Villa” will return to service in season 8. Rules are changing for this new edition and 14 anonymous people will enter the program. Among them is Jade, the first transgender candidate of the program broadcast on TFX.

Broken Hearts Villa The 7th season, which could not achieve the success that the channel expected, will return to our screens on April 3 with a new rule. Indeed, the group channel TF1 announced this year that the nominees will no longer be from various existing reality TV shows, but will be anonymous. Therefore, we will explore the journey of 14 broken hearts and their challenging love stories with new faces in the world of reality TV. Among those unnamed is Jade, the show’s first transgender nominee. Tele-Leisure.

“If I wanted a doll, I had one”

“There is no difference between a trans woman and another”Explaining that she had grown up first, Jade insisted “like a little girl in a boy’s body”. He explained and admitted that he was lucky enough to grow up in a tolerant family: “One of both [elle] wanted a doll, [elle] there was one”. Jade said it was during adolescence that she suffered from her gender, not in childhood. “My trouser tip reminds me I have a penis”the candidate testified Villa 8. On her difficulties in accepting her gender, the latter recalled: “I dropped out of school. I just played video games…” with female avatars. And entrust: “At 18, I saw death as just an escape. I tried to kill myself”.

After this tragic event, Jade says she came across the trailer of the movie. danish girl It was released in 2015 with Eddie Redmayne in the lead role. Based on a true story, this movie tells the story of Danish artist Lili Elbe, who is known as the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery. “I informed my mother directly that I could change gender”, she remembered. The candidate later revealed that it was her mother who came up with the new name. “She chose Jade as a girl. It was important that she put my name on it.”, he admitted. Jade, who makes an appointment with endocrinologists and psychiatrists and receives hormone therapy, begins to have surgery and changes her marital status. She underlined that our colleagues are always with her. Tele-Leisure : “I think my transition is complete today.” In conclusion: “When I was younger, I wanted to read interviews with trans people. Even if not on TV at all!”.

Kahina Boudjdjdj

Source: Programme Television

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