Anastasia Eva Domani is one of the best known transgender women in Ukraine. She began to transition in 2016, and two years later received her new legal documents. Anastasia is a consultant and member of TransCoalition in the post-Soviet Space, which helps people who want to begin transitioning legally, medically and socially.
Even as a child, Anastasia would secretly dress in girls’ clothes. In her student years, she realised her identity and started meeting other transgender people online. Before her transition, she worked in various jobs, including property sales, which meant frequent travel around Ukraine’s regions. Before each trip she would go online to search for transgender people in the area and meet up with them in her free time.
In 2006, Anastasia got married, as she wanted to have children, and her parents had begun to hint that it was time to marry. Four years later, the couple had a daughter, but in 2016 she secretly started hormone replacement therapy (HRT), taking advice on appropriate drugs and dosage from transgender women she knew.
