patti labelle blog: Chinese Man Financed by Harisu to Do Transsexual Surgery

Zhang Lei (张雷), 24, a native of northeast China's Jilin Province, has reportedly been suffering from a gender identity disorder since he was very young. He was born with the Hypospadias disease, which annoyed him of being a boy.

After receiving South Korean transsexual entertainer Harisu's 80,000 yuan (US$10,351), his dream of undergoing sex reassignment surgery comes true soon.

Zhang grew up playing girls' games with three elder sisters living nearby in his home village while his father labored in the city all year long.

He felt himself like a girl in school, playing around with girls, but got derided by boys as a girly man. He wished to have a girlfriend as other boys did, but "didn't know whom to turn to" and "just couldn't talk about love with girls," he said, weeping.

In the photo studio where he works, Zhang likes being dressed up by female colleagues into a beautiful woman, which he said is the happiest moment in life.

All these contributed to his determination to put an end to the struggle.