A transgender former bank, who prefers the pronoun “it”, believes it was born not only the wrong sex, but also the wrong species and has undergone under a number of painful procedures to become a ‘dragon’.

The 55-year-old was born “Richard Hernandez” but now goes by “Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa” or Tiamat for short. It has already had a number of transformative procedures, such as tooth extraction, eye coloring, horn implants, ear removal, a nose modification and a procedure to give it a forked tongue.

It has also tattoos and scarification on its face and chest to make it look like it has scales instead of human skin.

According to Daily Mail, “Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa” refers to itself as a “mythical beast.”

“I am the Dragon Lady, A pre-op M2F (male to female) transgender in the process of morphing into a human dragon, becoming a reptoid as I shed my human skin and my physical appearance and my life as a whole leaving my humanness behind and embracing my most natural self awareness as a mythical beast,” Tiamat explains on its website.

Richard Hernandez and his son in April 1997