"It feels great to be a man and I’d never regret having the sex change treatment,” said China’s first openly female-to-male transsexual person seven years after his operation.

In March, 2005, he had a mastectomy and had his vagina, uterus and other female sexual organs surgically removed at Xiamen’s Zhongshan Hospital. He legally became a man one year later.

Geng Zi said he spent nearly 14 years trying to convince his parents that he was trapped within a body of the wrong sex.

His ‘boyish’ new name was given by his parents and his little nieces and nephews were happy to call him uncle instead of auntie.

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