Posted on 10/31/2012 1:47:51 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'I was born a boy, became a girl, and now I want to be a boy again': Britain's youngest sex swap patient to reverse her sex change treatment
Ria Cooper made headlines last year when she became Britains youngest sex change patient aged 17, after years of begging her family and the NHS to turn her in to a girl.
But now, having lived as a women for less than a year the 18-year has decided to change back in to a man after suffering huge mental anguish as a woman.
She has cancelled the full sex change operation that was scheduled for January and ceased the female hormone therapy that has seen her develop breasts saying that she has found the changes overwhelming and that they have made her deeply unhappy.
Scroll down for video Miserable: Ria Cooper has only been under going the hormone therapy to become a girl for a year, but already feels she has made a huge mistake and plans to return to being Bradley Britains youngest sex swap patient as Ria
Although Ms Cooper underwent a thorough psychological assessment and counseling at Hull Royal Infirmary prior to starting her sex change therapy she has suffered such torment living as a women that she has tried to commit suicide twice.
She told told the Sunday Mirror: The hormones have made me feel up and down. One minute I feel moody and the next minute I feel really happy.
The night I tried to slash my wrists Id downed a bottle of Jack Daniels and just thought about how alone I am, and how my decision has alienated my family and how I will have to become a boy again to resolve it.
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Beat me to the south park reference by 30 seconds
Lucky he changed his mind while he still had his parts. But I suspect that it will be a long time, if ever, before all those female hormones wear off.
Ditto!
A lot of these people are just unhappy and think that if they were just "someone else" all the unhappiness would go away. But as a wise philosopher (Buckaroo Banzai) once said, "No matter where you go, there you are."
Change your clothes, location, hair, face or body; doesn't matter. You have to change your heart, your attitude, your goals and your outlook if you want to actually change.
But that is much more work then just having the doc do a "snip and tuck".
Gee!
To think the mothers in the 40’s/50’s thought they had a problem with....
“Don’t slam the screen door!
Either go outside and play or stay inside and sit down”.
We have come a ‘long way’ baby.
“The hormones made me feel up and down”.
Tell me about it! it’s a box of chocolates being a gal, isn’t it?!
This may be elementary to some in the 21st Century but: “how do you grow one, when you’ve chopped it off??”
Inquiring minds want to know?
Thank you. I am against this type of surgery; and, the reason is that it is just treating the superficial aspects of the persons mental disorder. I feel sorry for people who are going through this type of thing; but, allowing 17 year olds to decide that they want such a serious and consequential change is nuts. These people need help; but, I have come to believe that so do the people who support this stuff.
One day it dawned on me, after hearing somebody on t.v. talk about how they never felt like a "boy" and they always felt like a girl. It sounded a lot like a compulsive disorder where you just can't get a thought to stop repeating in your mind. And, then I thought that, that would be like the people who have the feeling that they constantly must wash their hands. Well, we don't chop off their hands and think that we have solved their problem.
But, with these poor folks, chopping off their sexual organs and then pumping them with hormonal drugs seems to be the only method they believe will help. There has to be something less drastic.
LOL, good one. I can tell you that I had a lot of problems with depression for many, many years. I developed uterine cancer and had to have a hysterectomy. Voila! Depression gone. Hormones can really mess you up. Although, I wasn't happy about having all of my "lady parts" taken out; I must say that my life has been improved greatly for having done so.
Its sad, really, that the psych folk provide one branch of medicine guaranteed income by denying another group the counseling they desperately need.
Nah. She just changed her mind. You know how women are.
Next week “she’ll” want to become a Donkey....
But never “normal”... shes Normalphobic..
You know..... as ALL gays are.. and most democrats..
I question whether having someone who is patently a psychological omnishambles in the armed forces is such a great idea.
right.
I agree.
And soon, in California, illegal.
As a married msn with five daughters I have absolutely mo comment
I wouldn't think Jack would be available in Britain.
No, Bradley, you don’t want to be a woman. I think your problem, and don’t take this unkindly, because it’s not, but your problem is that you want to be somebody else, somebody less messed up.
Was a boy, became a girl, wants to become a boy again.
Wrong on all counts. Chopping and grafting don’t change a sex.
I can't believe I'm the first to ask: would laz hit it?
CC
He hasn't had the surgery yet. So basically, he's a guy playing dress up. And an ugly one, at that.
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