Liu Ting takes care of her mother, July 31, 2014. Although determined to change gender, her filial piety to her mother would never change, she said. [Photo/CFP]

"Waking from the operation, I am really delighted," she said. It seems pains from the surgery did not reduce her high spirits at all and she is optimistic about the future.

"I will apply for a new identification card (by changing name and gender) after getting my operation certification," she said.

She plans to publish an autobiography, appear in a movie based on her own life and sell self-made anti-smog masks.

Facing questions about her identity, she said she could be a woman and a model. To be transsexual does not hamper her ambition to be a model, she said.