Eva Tiamat Medusa is a transgender woman from Bruni, Texas in the United States and she’s the most modified transgender person in the world. She has spent £42,000 transforming herself into, well, a dragon.
Eva’s journey to becoming a dragon started when she was diagnosed with HIV. And meanwhile she decided ‘not to die as a human’. Leaving her job as a vice president of a bank, Eva began to morph into the reptilian form she’d always longed to have, claiming that after being abandoned by her parents at the age of five, she was born again under the care of a western diamondback rattlesnake.
She started her transformation with a series of scale tattoos, followed by re-shaping of nose, removal of her ears, and the whites of her eyes permanently stained green. All of that cost an estimated £42,000, but Eva plans to have a further £28,000 worth of modifications in the coming years.
In an interview, she said, “there are profound reasons and deep meanings about my transformation and why I’m doing it. I have two mothers: One is my original birth mother and my second birth is to my reptilian parents, which are the rattlesnakes. ‘I hope that my story will help other people – not only those who have gone through hard times, but also people who have lost hope. ‘I myself know what it’s like to be at that point. Before my transformation I was vice president of one of the largest banks in the U.S. and I left when because I became HIV positive and feared I was going to die. ‘My big thing though was I didn’t want to die in this world looking like a human.”
“As much awesomeness and goodness there is in humans, compared to other species they are the most destructive and hateful. ‘I decided at that time, that it was time for a change in my life, so I wanted to look like something that wasn’t human. ‘I have eight horns on my forehead; I have had my ears removed; my nose reshaped; most of my teeth removed; I’ve had the white-part of my eyes stained; my tongue bifurcated; my whole face is tattooed and I’ve had some scarification and branding on my chest and wrist.’ I am sharing my story to help others who feel they need to change their physical body feel less alone”, she added.
According to her, trans-species is no longer identifying as human beings.
“I would like for there to be an open dialogue about the world of body modification and understand what it was like to live as a gay-man for 53-years and now as a transsexual woman,” she says.
PNN