Personal Life
For many years, she worked as a consultant in the petrochemical and fertilizing industries, where—still in the male gender—she had a successful career, both nationally and internationally. Despite the professional success she realized she had to make a big change in life by accepting her gender dysphoria and moving away from engineering (where it would have been difficult to be accepted in a new gender).
Torres' gender transition started in 1993 and took many years. In 1997 she finally had a sex reassignment surgery with a reputed Brazilian surgeon named Jalma Jurado.
It is Wal Torres' aim to establish protocols and interchange experiences in the evaluation and treatment of people suffering from gender identity disorders.
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