Motor oil or coconut oil , industrial silicone, biopolymers running hot inside a veterinary syringe and applied directly into the buttocks, legs, nose, or hip to meet the standard. Homemade injections in makeshift rooms, without anesthesia, without hygiene, botched surgeries , with no idea that the beauty they wanted could cost them their lives.

Since she was 13, Gretel looked for a body that matched her identity. Her transition was guided by what she could afford on her own and the urgency to find a face and a body that would make her feel at peace. But her search ended up becoming a surgical tragedy.

The procedure that was supposed to “beautify” her turned into irreversible harm. The doctor who operated on her, Charbel Andrés Sosa Azar, sliced off her nose, and the procedure left

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