Jin Xing

Born in 1967, Xing is a well known trannsexual ballerina and dancer from China. Xing was highly intelligent as a child and joined the People's Liberation Army of China to study dance, eventually rising to the rank of Colonel. But Xing struggled with her feelings of wanting to be a woman, and would often stand in a lightning storm wishing a bolt would strike her and make her a woman.

In 1987, she left China to study modern dance for four years. Afterwards, she toured Europe and taught in Rome. In 1996, she underwent sexual reassignment surgery. She began teaching dance in Shanghai, where she currently resides, and is a wife and mother to three children.