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A book by Adel Tincelin Diary of a TransBoy: We only have two lives! serves here as a background to the apprehension of several questions posed by “gender suffering” and the paths of identity transitions. Alongside the first urgency to hear and accompany an identity gap and an extraordinarily touching suffering, multiple questions open up between the real and the imaginary of the body and the construction of identity (the sexual, the subjective history, the narcissistic basis, the place on the other in the tension between (unconscious) images of the body and (social and conscious) representation of the Self… This formidable testimony imposes on each clinician a profound ethical as well as clinical and theoretical reflection.