Kim Petra is a German teen, an up and coming pop star with an album out, and a international model.You can hear her music on Myspace.com, or watch video clips on Youtube.com.
More recently though, she in the news for another reason, she is believe to be one of the youngest to have gender reasignment surgery, at age 16.
Kim was born, a male, Tim in 1992.
The following is from an article in http://www.news.com.au/
"""She has been taking female hormones from the age of 12 but completed her gender change in November .
"Everything has changed because of this operation. I just can't wait to put on my favourite bathing suit and go swimming like I've never done before," she said on her blog.
"I had to wait until my 16th birthday but once that was past I was able legally to have the operation.
"I know that because of my past people will always bring up the subject, I can't get away from it. But I hope that one day I might be better known for something else like my music."
In Germany gender reassignment is not usually allowed until the person turns 18 but Dr Bernd Meyenburg of the Psychiatric Special Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescents with Identity Disorders at the University of Frankfurt Hospital told the Daily Mail Kim was an exceptional case."
I was always against such operations on children so young but after seeing how happy one of my patients was and how well adjusted after returning from having the operation abroad while still a teenager – I realised that in some cases it is the right decision," he said.
"Kim is such a case – she always knew what she wanted."Her surgery was covered by health insurance as she had been diagnosed with a medical condition, the Daily Mail reported.
Kim is signed to Joyce Records has released singles Last Forever and Fade Away.
"I was asked if I feel like a woman now – but the truth is I have always felt like a woman – I just ended up in the wrong body," she said.
"I had a problem because I couldn't wear skinny stuff, but now I can wear whatever I want to. I really am looking forward to going swimming like everyone else and to wearing tight jeans that show off my figure. They are so tight, I always felt quite uncomfortable in them until now. "Now I can go as tight as I want to. I used to wear mini skirts too, but yes, now even the tight ones can be part of my wardrobe.
"I can enjoy swimming, and bikinis, go in the changing rooms without a problem, everything has changed because of this operation. I just can't wait to put on my favourite bathing suit and go swimming like I've never done before"""
This a big step forward for the transgender community, and will be a even bigger one when her music and magazine covers are the story, not her sex, or sex change. I have a feeling that day is not to far off
This is also a positive for the equal recondition of global human and civil right of all men, women, and children.
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