A tentative person who is easily affected by others’ opinions will simply not manage this accomplishment. Yet the concept of such complete modification of the body is still fairly new for our time and this means that, within that sense of inner happiness, lies an almost melancholic realisation that one now belongs to another dimension which can at times be difficult to grasp by the conventional majority. My name, Touka (meaning Toucan), was given to me by my parents. They are both wonderful artists and so my family life from birth has always been surrounded by the magical worlds of theatre and film. I did not have a name for a whole month after birth as they could not agree on a name. Then one day a friend came to visit with a book called A Toucan in Cage by Nima Yushij. A story about freedom.
