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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – For 28 years, Aprilia Santini Manganang lived as a woman. She is described as a woman in various state documents.
Aprilia even became a female volleyball athlete with a brilliant career over the years. He was selected as an athlete on the national team, until he finally retired at the end of 2020 due to injury.
The figure who was born on April 27, 1992, then made a career at TNI. He has the rank of second sergeant (serda). Then Aprilia began undergoing medical examinations on February 3, 2021 at the Gatot Soebroto Military Hospital.
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From the medical examination, it was discovered that Aprilia had a genital disorder called hypospadias.
In fact, Aprilia was born a boy. He also underwent corrective surgery. TNI denied that it was a transgender operation.
“Sergeant Manganang is not transgender or intersex. He does not fall into that category,” said Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) General Andika Perkasa at Army Headquarters at a press conference on Tuesday (3/9 / 2021).
“I know the definition and the medical team knows all the definitions too. Because the disorder is hypospadias. So it always comes back to that,” Andika Perkasa said.
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Rename
Now, Aprilia Santini Manganang has officially changed its name to Aprilio Perkasa Manganang. The name change request was granted by the Tondano District Court.
The decision was made by the Nova Loura Sasube Council of Judges at a conference on name, gender and a series of resident documents that took place virtually on Friday (3/19/2021).
“Establishing the name change of the applicant who was originally called Aprilia Santini Manganang changed to Aprilio Perkasa Manganang,” said Nova reading the results.
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In addition to changing the name, the panel of judges also granted the applicant’s request regarding the gender change in the eyes of the law.
The judge granted the request to change the gender from woman to man based on the testimony of witnesses, experts and various evidences.
She shed tears when Andika Perkasa later changed her name tag from “Aprilia” to “Perkasa”.
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He paid his respects to Andika and immediately hugged KSAD tightly. Aprilio also kissed her hand and hugged Andika’s wife, Hetty Andika Perkasa.
Aprilio Manganang claimed that this change was the moment he had been looking forward to the most for 28 years.
“Hopefully it’s a good start in the future, a new beginning. Because this is what I was waiting for. Praise God, thank God, I can get through all of this,” Aprilio said.