Allow 'him' to be 'herself'

Liu Ting takes care of her mother, July 31, 2014. Although determined to change gender, her filial piety to her mother would never change, she said. [Photo/CFP]

"Waking from the operation, I am really delighted," she said. It seems pains from the surgery did not reduce her high spirits at all and she is optimistic about the future.

"I will apply for a new identification card (by changing name and gender) after getting my operation certification," she said.

She plans to publish an autobiography, appear in a movie based on her own life and sell self-made anti-smog masks.

Facing questions about her identity, she said she could be a woman and a model. To be transsexual does not hamper her ambition to be a model, she said.