The inspiring story of Isabelle, 11, who was born as a boy but......

Mail Online ^ | 16 November 2014 | Freya Noble for Daily Mail Australia

[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: 'She would come home and say she didn't want to live': The inspiring story of Isabelle, 11, who was born as a boy but 'felt like a girl in the wrong body'

'Just be yourself' is what so many children and adults alike are told every day. But for some this is much more of a challenge than for others.

'If you don't be yourself, you're going to be miserable for your whole life,' is the advice that comes from 11-year-old Isabelle.

Isabelle was born as a boy called Campbell, but told her parents last year just weeks after she turned ten she felt as though she was stuck in the wrong body.

In a documentary set to air on ABC's Four Corners on Monday evening, she and her family have chosen to share their story to encourage others to speak out.

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[NetAddicted]

They’re working to make it so parents can pretend-change their kids’ sex without a court order? OMG!

[heartwood]

You want to look up androgen insensitivity syndrome, SRY gene cross-overs, and non-functioning SRY.

Every now and then a XY individual physically develops as female. Or an XX as male.

This isn’t the case here - when the child was born, they looked at his genitalia and said “It’s a boy!”

But science finds some strange exceptions to the rule.

[heartwood]

Actually I suppose this kid could be XX with a SRY crossover.

But not likely.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Poor child.