Lucas and Mateo Ocón shared the same womb in Málaga, Spain. They were born with the names Natalia and Lucía, and from the age of 4 or 5 they felt that body was not theirs.
At 24, they began hormone treatment together, in July 2013. Their veins absorbed testosterone at the same rate, and their voices changed almost in unison.
In August 2015, they underwent the same surgery: a double mastectomy that cost them more than $70.000 dollars, paid out of their own pockets because the public system made them wait and question it.
Psychologists questioned their transition because they were twins, as if sharing a womb made their identity suspect. A surgeon even made a comment that neither of them has forgotten.
In November of that same year, their documents changed: Natalia and Lucía disappeared from the records, and Lucas and Mateo remained, one a minute older than the other.
Today they await the hysterectomy that will bring to a close the process they began together, cell by cell, in the same maternal body.