Chloe Facchini returns to TV after the transition process: “Proud to be a transgender woman”

We met her at The cook’s test eleven years ago and today we find it again a It is always noon with the same landlady of the time, Antonella Clerici. She is Chloe Facchini, a 41-year-old chef from Bologna who started two and a half years ago a transition path that, on the occasion of the International Day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, led her to accept Antonella’s invitation and to return to television no longer as Riccardo, but as Chloe. «Since I was a child I have always felt like a child.

Now I’m Chloe, and I’m proud as a transgender woman, ”Facchini wrote on her Instagram profile before joining the program.

“Mine is no longer an individual path, I want to make it clear that we do not come from Mars, that we integrate into society” insisted the chef, recalling the importance of the Zan law and the very long period that brought it the decision to undertake the transition path in 2017: «I did not accept my image. I started the psychological path, then hormonal therapies to harmonize mind and body. I have not yet operated on, but I am a woman ». Today Facchini works at Buca di San Petronio, al Nu Lounge and al Foodiesshe lives in Sala Bolognese with her fiancé Maurizio who is a “husband”, and she is serene as she has never been before. “The real coming out I did with him who knew me as Riccardo and accepted my path”.

«If a person feels he is in the wrong body, he is not obliged to go through a medicalized path, because there are so many nuances in the gender spectrum. Transgender women don’t necessarily want to undergo demolition surgery. But the law (164, ed) should be updated because it does not take into account the evolution of society by referring to the binary concept, man and woman “.

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