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A 55-year-old dragon lady born "Richard Hernandez" has spent around $60,000 to transform into a transgender dragon lady, "Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa." This self-mutilated person has insisted that people refer to it not as "he" or even "she," but as "it." In a recent interview, it revealed why it made this decision: it was determined "not to die a human" after being diagnosed with HIV in 1997.

"My big thing though was I didn't want to die in this world looking like a human," Medusa told the Wizard of Odd TV. "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."

Rather than changing up routine, going on a vacation, or trying a new career like many in a mid-life crisis, Medusa decided to reject the entire human race, and was willing to shell out a fortune in the process.

According to Britain's The Daily Mail, the dragon lady paid $60,000 for body alterations, and still plans on spending another $40,000 to complete the process.

"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," Medusa told the Wizard of Odd. It added, "For me, my transformation is the greatest journey of my life."

The beast expressed hope that its story would inspire others who had lost hope. "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," Medusa explained. "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."

The beast mentioned a quasi-spiritual "second birth" to non-human parents. "I have two mothers: One is my original birth mother and my second birth is to my reptilian parents, which are the rattlesnakes."

Medusa presented itself as a pioneer in human identity. "There's a lot of misunderstanding about what it means to be transsexual and then further than that - something that I'm introducing - the idea of trans-speciesism," it said.

"I consider myself not just to be human anymore; I'm human and reptilian," Medusa said. "My greatest desire in life is to continue my body modification until my metamorphosis is complete. This is what drives me - this is the reason why I get up every day and live."

The beast not only believes it was born in the wrong sex, like those who suffer from gender dysphoria (the persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite your birth sex), but that it was born in the wrong species. Yet, it cannot completely erase its identity as human, because it lived for 53 years as a gay man and was after all born to a human mother.

While most people who encourage transgender identity would likely not go so far as to support trans-speciesism, this particular denial of reality follows the logic of the transgender movement.

Those who struggle with gender dysphoria have at least two options: accept the sex they were born with and suppress the desire to identify as the opposite sex, or deny biological reality and live a lie, asking society to agree with the false identity. People who identify as transgender can then decide whether or not to force their bodies to conform to their identities.

Many children take puberty blockers, and many adults take hormones to change the chemical makeup of their bodies. Some - like former Olympian Bruce Jenner - even undergo expensive and unalterable surgery to remove their sex organs and have artificial sex organs of the opposite sex put in to replace them.

Even the most intrusive of these procedures cannot alter DNA, however. On the molecular level, "Caitlyn" Jenner is still male, and Eva Tiamat Medusa is still a male human being.

Going through expensive surgery to prop up a false identity cannot change the kind of thing a person truly is. It can, however, scar that person for life, should he or she eventually choose to reject the transgender identity. One such former transgender person, 21-year-old Max Robinson, warned against cross-sex hormones and surgery, saying, "It's not a cure at all."

Eva Tiamat Medusa may be a pioneer, but this confused man is a pioneer in insanity - expensive, jaw-dropping insanity. Then again, he might glibly dismiss any such criticism as "trans-species-phobic."

Comment: What hope is there to gained from someone who has given up on trying to become a better human being and seeks instead to be more animal? There's nothing inspirational about cutting off your body parts, mutilating your tongue, and branding your body. You don't become something more by becoming something less. Furthermore, inspiration is provided by people who rise up to challenges, who face the world and come out on the other side as better people. It doesn't take a whole lot of moral fortitude to abuse your body and reject the world around you.

food for thought. it is a very sad story..thank you for posting this Moe..

this man is a complete lunatic.

Didn't get any attention when "it" was a child....Well,, it IS the UK..... Land of freaks and fairies.

The comment part says it all... After all, we do live in a society...

Comment: What hope is there to gained from someone who has given up on trying to become a better human being and seeks instead to be more animal? There's nothing inspirational about cutting off your body parts, mutilating your tongue, and branding your body. You don't become something more by becoming something less. Furthermore, inspiration is provided by people who rise up to challenges, who face the world and come out on the other side as better people. It doesn't take a whole lot of moral fortitude to abuse your body and reject the world around you.

no, it's about selfishness...it didn't care about anyone or anything around it, only it's selfish desires...hard to live in a society when all you care about is yourself...

what makes you think we're "entitled" to anything? Because someone told we are?

no, a poster at another website where the article was posted

we care or at least we should.

hope? What's it hoping for? A selfish desire, not world Peace or feeding starving children...100,000 dollars can feed quite a few people...but no, let's use it to become a bearded dragon lady thing... I'm actually kinda shocked you see this thing doing no wrong...

Yeah...it's a personal journey-down the lane of utter folishness.
Only the mentally deranged will be inspired by this foolly.
This fellow really needs help.

I have to agree. I really wish there was more of a push to 'help' people instead of all this 'acceptance' that noone needs help and 'norms' are a bad and oppressive thing at all times.

It is like how addicts try to seek fulfillment from something external, and even when they 'stop', they tend to just fill it with something else. I dont believe they truly fill the hole , so much as trick themselves for a while into believing they have. Thats what all this excessive body mutilation in this world is reminding me of. We had drugs, and now we have drugs and body mutilation, to make us 'feel' better about whatever is troubling our soul.

I dont feel a threat any more than I do with an obese person eating nothing but candy bars, or with a alcholic drinking beer from sun up to sun down. I just think its a foolish way to try to 'fulfill' whatever one feels is missing.

we're all "entitled" to our opinions, aren't we?

we all uphold our own values, just like you're doing... I'll never say anything this thing is doing is ok, just for the fact when we glorify something like this, your telling the simple and young it's ok, when I think it's not...

I wonder how many pains he is going through daily because of those múltiples surgery. No real human beings should ever copy such.

Humm the way I see it, it is their choice to do with their body as they choose...

As long as they are paying for all the medical procedures what concern is it of ours..

Only they will have to deal with the what they have done... It is no different then one that decides to have tattoo's all over their body...

Sure they may look like a freak but seems they either love the attention or happy with what their choices are...

Seems he/she/it must be working or they could not afford all the modifications they have done...

I bet anyone else that goes and gets a boob job, penis enlargement,hair weaves, tattoo's or even body builders that go over board taking stuff to make them bigger, would tell ya it is no one's business but theirs what they do with their body..... No different.... they have to live with the results for a lifetime....

Even tho I'm against doing something that drastic does not mean I have the right to judge those that do...

so where does opinions stop and judging start? We have a right to express our opinions, but not to judge? I'm having a hard time figuring out the meanings between the two...

From Bruni, Texas

lol...it's your problem now...