Eva Tiamat Medusa, a transgender woman from Bruni, Texas, believes she’s the ‘most modified transgender person in the world’.She also identifies as a dragon, and has spent more than £42,000 transforming herself into a reptile.
Eva’s journey to becoming a dragon started when, while living as a man, Eva was diagnosed with HIV. She became determined ‘not to die a human’. Leaving her job as a vice president at a bank behind, 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. Eva identifies as a human and a reptilian
Eva began her transformation with a series of scale tattoos, followed by having her nose re-shaped, her ears removed, and the whites of her eyes permanently stained green. All of that cost an estimated $60,000 (£42,000), but Eva plans to have a further £28,000 worth of modifications in the coming years. ‘For me, my transformation is the greatest journey of my life,’ Eva explained to The Wizard of Odd TV. ‘There are profound reasons and deep meanings about my transformation and why I’m doing it. She’s spent more than £42,000 on modifications including tattoos, tongue-splitting, and having the whites of her eyes dyed green
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. Eva plans to have more modifications to look more like a dragon.
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.’ Eva is sharing her story to help others who feel they need to change their physical body feel less alone.
Eva says she didn’t want to die as a human.She no longer identifies as a human but as a reptilian. ‘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. ‘My greatest desire in life is to continue my body modification until my metamorphosis is complete.
