Society didn't accept him but is changing with her

Wang Maoli says she doesn't regret the sex reassignment surgery she underwent 21 years ago.

But that doesn't mean life has been easy, she says.

She has spent the past two decades in the media spotlight as the first person known to have undergone the surgery in Chongqing municipality and the second in the country. She's also perhaps the country's first person to change the gender on her ID card.