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Britain's youngest sex swap patient reveals why she's undergoing surgery for the third time (trunc)
Mirror ^ | August 6, 2016 | Grace Macaskill

Posted on 08/06/2017 6:14:46 AM PDT by plain talk

Like many young women, Ria Cooper dreams of one day getting married and having children. But the 23-year-old knows the odds are stacked against her. Not only because she was born a boy, but because she has now switched gender an astonishing three times in her short life.

Ria – who was born Brad – became ­Britain’s youngest sex-swap patient at 15. Doctors controversially backed her belief she was a girl in a boy’s body.

She was given blockers to stop her going through puberty, followed by injections of female hormones to impede face and chest hair and trigger the formation of breasts.

But with her life spiralling out of control as she struggled with her new identity – and the fears of never being accepted as a woman – Ria decided to transition back and live her life instead as a gay man.

Before having crucial surgery, she ended her treatment and became Brad again soon after her 18th birthday.

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Title might be misleading. One switch back at 18 was done before surgery. So I am not sure how many surgeries it has had.
1 posted on 08/06/2017 6:14:46 AM PDT by plain talk
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Now we know why it is called “practicing medicine”.


2 posted on 08/06/2017 6:17:07 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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This is what happens when you cater to a mental illness and then get doctors to perform body mutilation.


3 posted on 08/06/2017 6:20:33 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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How ‘bout the next operation being a lobotomy followed up with lifetime Thorazine maintenance.
4 posted on 08/06/2017 6:21:15 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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indulging mental illness. NHS had money for this but not for treating real ailments.


5 posted on 08/06/2017 6:21:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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A switch before surgery? So it wasn’t really a switch?


6 posted on 08/06/2017 6:22:36 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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So after surgery is performed to remove male organs, are they put in a jar during a warranty period, or frozen like Ted Williams’ head? Or, is there a donor program for new parts? If the latter, people better be careful what they agree to when they sign up to be a donor.


7 posted on 08/06/2017 6:24:26 AM PDT by Bernard (If we could tax Stupid, Congress could balance the budget)
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Being treated like tattoos—and their removals.

No NHS money for Charlie Gard. :(

8 posted on 08/06/2017 6:24:44 AM PDT by Does so ("PARIS" is like OPEC, except We're Winning!)
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What a wonderful and enlightened age we live in when so many professional people are willing to go to such lengths to humor a person’s delusions.

Maybe they could use velcro to attach whatever “parts” go with the day’s fantasy?


9 posted on 08/06/2017 6:24:49 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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Brad sounds like one deeply bleeped up dude.
10 posted on 08/06/2017 6:25:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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We used to help the mentally ill, now we mutilate them for money.


11 posted on 08/06/2017 6:27:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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self mutilation does not a woman make.

Homos and trans freaks are simply not sane.


12 posted on 08/06/2017 6:27:18 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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If she feels like a rabbit tomorrow, should doctors try to make her bunny ears. Whatever they do, they cannot make her a rabbit just like they cannot make him a woman.


13 posted on 08/06/2017 6:30:39 AM PDT by boycott
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I've also read that NHS has plenty of money for fertility treatments (which can cost several thousand dollars). And then they pay again to abort about 1/10 of the babies conceived through fertility treatments.

If there must be socialized medicine, it should not cover anything outside of the "life, limb, eyesight" paradigm (that's what governs treatment by military health care providers when dealing with non-military patients). The luxuries, like abortion, fertility treatments, genital mutilation, elective plastic surgeries, etc., should never be covered by a socialized system. I include fertility treatments because there is no way a person should be allowed to incur costs of $16,000 or more on fertility treatments to get pregnant with a baby that they then turn around and abort. If they genuinely want a baby, they can spend their own money--and if they spend their own money, it's unlikely they'll get pregnant and then kill the kid a few weeks later.

14 posted on 08/06/2017 6:31:10 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Doesn’t matter. Nothing will change the X/Y chromosome count. More like an idiot trapped in the cranial cavity for the space for a brain which is not usable at the moment because all the chemistry is all goofed up.

A normal woman has raging hormonal ‘imbalances’ with the correct chromosomes, can one imagine what will happen to this dolt when it comes time for menopause?


15 posted on 08/06/2017 6:32:47 AM PDT by mazda77
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Ria Cooper dreams of one day getting married and having children. But the 23-year-old knows the odds are stacked against her.

The odds are not just stacked against him. The odds are a 500 foot high titanium wall.

16 posted on 08/06/2017 6:32:49 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. — Mark Twain)
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And no help for Charlie


17 posted on 08/06/2017 6:34:03 AM PDT by tje
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Addadicktomethatusedtobemine?


18 posted on 08/06/2017 6:35:54 AM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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No NHS money for Charlie Gard. :(

Charlie Gard was taken care of in a charity hospital, and the care they gave him prolonged his life by several months.

No amount of money in the world could have saved him. The disease he had literally prevented normal function in every cell of his body. There is no cure for that. Modern medicine can do a lot, but it cannot fix a body when every cell is defective.

19 posted on 08/06/2017 6:37:10 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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No NHS money for Charlie Gard

There it is.

20 posted on 08/06/2017 6:37:34 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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