Transpinay graces the "I, Woman" section of Metro Magazine's (Women's Month) March Issue.
by Ana Santos
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The struggle for Dee Mendoza to prove herself at work was a difficult one, not for reasons of capability, but because of the way she chose to express and affirm her gender. Mendoza talks intimately about being a transsexual woman; her discoveries and her struggles that ultimately led to her emancipation.
Clothes may make a man, but it doesn't make a woman.
I have always been a woman even though I had to wear men's clothes. Cross dressing — that is me in men's clothes — started at a very young age. I was born with a male body. Thus, I was expected to perform conventionally in the role of male; act male, be heterosexual, have girl friends, and eventually a wife.