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Catharina Anastasia Romanova van Oranje-Nassau is a Dutch entrepreneur, born in 1981 to an entrepreneurial father and a teacher active in voluntary work. She was born Folkert Visser. In 2014 - after her gender reassignment surgery - she changed her names to Bregtje Catharina Reinate Visser. 
In 2020, she changed her names again, this time to Yecatharina Anastasia Henriqua Wilhelmijn Elisabeth Hubregtje Raenate. She now uses as surnames Romanova van Oranje-Nassau to express her philosophy of life and create visibility for it. On her blog spiritual journey marked by several encounters and a past-life regression , she is said to have become aware of, among other things, the reincarnation of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
==Summary==
* Transition
* Professional career
* Commitment to transgender people 
* Awards
* External links
* References
==Transition==
From 2008 to 2014, Catharina Anastasia underwent a transition process. In the process, like any transgender person, she experiences what it means to come out on her own. 
*2010 Start of hormone therapy
*2012 facial surgery
*2014 gender reassignment surgery in Thaildn with Dr Supporn
Because of her career, she is able to pay for all these operations herself. She feels this is very unfair and files a lawsuit against her insurance company. Which ends with a settlement offer. In 2014, she changed her birth name to Bregtje Catharina Reinate and her gender designation. In the Netherlands at the time, it was not possible for a transgender person to change their marital status before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
After her FFS surgery, on board a bus, she had a heated dispute with a controller accusing her of travelling with someone else's ticket. She was then arrested by the police and put in jail. A police officer tells her, "I don't understand anything about who you are.
==Professional career==
In 2006, she founded several companies. First, she founded incubator YEAH! which to this day facilitates young entrepreneurs in what is now called the launchcafe. She then continues with her partner Niek Huizenga by taking over I-see.tv. This eventually develops into a media company employing about 25 people. That company was terminated during the financial crisis in 2008 due to a sudden decline in orders in the media sector. She ends the company after a debt reorganisation that she herself brings to a successful conclusion. 
During her transition, she starts working on an interim basis from 2011 from her company Laurentes and later Quickfixx, working for various organisations. In this, she builds a solid reputation where she manages to bring about major changes in companies in a short space of time. For instance, she is involved in the rescue and relaunch of a steam boiler maintenance company, sets up the entire cloud portfolio for higher education and universities affiliated to SURF, ensures that a large number of networks connected the layer-2 connections to Netherlight so that data from higher education and universities can be exchanged quickly and securely. At Vancis (subsidiary of SURF), she professionalised the entire product portfolio within a year before Vancis was sold to Strikwerda in 2016. She then worked briefly at Wolters Kluwer as product portfolio manager of Twinfield and then as portfolio manager at Leaseweb for the Cloud portfolio until March 2017. 
==Commitment to transgender people==
From January 2016, in addition to her professional career, she is also committed to transgender people. 
From February 2016, her commitment ensures the financial rescue of Transgender Network Netherlands after this organisation was without a director for over two her from 2014-2015 due to overwork. Within weeks, she ensured that the entire financial accounts were reorganised. Transgender Network Netherlands was thus saved from collapse in its survival. In June 2017, she resigned as TNN's treasurer to dedicate herself fully to Gendertalent.
She then brought all kinds of people and parties together around the issue of work. Out of that came her brainchild Foundation Gendertalent (today Catherine Anastasia Foundation). 
On 26 June 2016, she founded the Gendertalent foundation with the organisation TNN (Transgender Netwerk Nederland - the Dutch organisation for defending the rights of transgender minorities), the trade union FNV and the COC Netherlands, with the aim of facilitating access to the labour market for transgender people. 
The organisation also provides training on transgender issues to companies and offers reintegration support to transgender people. Visser explains: "From Gendertalent, I know that besides a large group of people for whom things are going well, there are many transgender people who do not perform well at work due to discrimination, mental fatigue or the effects of physical hormones. They are not working, part-time or below their level. They need to be supported ". At the time, a study by the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) showed that 38% of transgender people in the Netherlands live on a supplement, compared with 14% of the rest of the population. 
Gendertalent developed into a reintegration company. To professionalise the company, it was decided by the Supervisory Board on 20 April 2018 to corporatise the reintegration company and separate owning the company from supporting charities. Thereupon, the organisation The Peoples Freedom Company B.V. was founded with Genderness B.V. and Gendertalent B.V. and Genderhealthcare B.V. also under it, and Genderjobs, the world's first employment agency for transgender people sees the light of day. The shares will be placed in a management foundation to preserve the non-profit nature of the organisation. In April 2020, Genderwende Foundation will be renamed the "Catharina Anastasia Foundation".
In early 2019, Catharina Anastasia is absent due to her spiritual experience. For a short time, this causes chaos at Gendertalent. which can also be read in the article published by Follow the Money three years later. This highlights, among other things, her early business failures and the period of chaos at Gendertalent. The company and the Catharina Anastasia Foundation respond and launch an investigation. This consists of two parts: The financial facts as presented by Follow the Money. The first part was completed and is online. In it, all the facts are refuted and substantiated. 
In 2021, Stepwork Transgender Care will be bought and contributed to Genderhealthcare, the mental health institution. This will ensure continuity for the care of 430 clients. Much criticism is being voiced by the various transgender organisations, the newspaper Dagblad van het Noorden reports. Genderhealthcare has about 450 clients in care by 2023, and the waiting list reduced from 200 waiting. In addition, Genderhealthcare has resolved the ambiguities of about 1,200 waiters. 
Genderhealthclinic will be established in 2022, focusing on specialist medical care for transgender people. The clinic will see the light of day from 1 January 2023, focusing on hormonal care for now.
==Awards==
On 25 February 2019, she received an award from the Winq organisation for her work: the Gender Diversity Award.
Category:1981 births
Category:Dutch people
Category:Entrepreneurs