Isis King, the first transgender woman on America’s Next Top Model has been given a gift than many could only dream about. Tyra Banks announced that Isis would receive a free gender reassignment surgery compliments of one of the world’s leading surgeons Dr Marci Bowers, who happens to be a post op transgender woman also.

Isis was selected to appear on America’s Next Top Model at a time where she was homeless and desperate to make enough money to change her gender. She made headlines around the world as she bared her soul on television, chasing down her dream of becoming a model. She took on a fair bit of discrimination on the series as other genetic females laughed behind her back, something which she has faced for a long time.

Gender reassignment surgery is complex and expensive. Not only are the sex organs changed to the desired gender, other surgeries like breast augmentation and facial feminising surgeries are also needed. Isis remarked when quizzed why she had not already had the surgery on Top Model answering “It’s just the finances, it costs a lot of money, between $20,000 and $35,000.” Many transgender men and women struggle to come up with the money to complete their transition and some will do anything to reach that goal.

Isis broke down on The Tyra Banks Show as she was asked about how it felt each day to look between her legs and see her current genitals. “It’s something that I’m really passionate about and I feel like I really was born in the wrong body.” Not only is Isis receiving a complete gender reassignment surgery but also plastic surgery thrown in. She is definitely one of the luckiest transgender women On the planet right now.