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Right before entering surgery

This film photograph was taken as my friend was entering the operating room to have his mastectomy with the same doctor who had done mine months earlier. The life expectancy of trans people in Brazil is 35 years.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Copyright: © Gabrielle Tosi