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Socialized Health Care : Builder loses nuts and bolts
The Sun (UK) ^ | Aug 9, 2007 | JAMIE PYATT

Posted on 08/09/2007 2:31:05 PM PDT by llevrok

BUILDING boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by CASTRATING himself so he could become a woman.

The 42-year-old dad of two decided on the drastic move after being told he would have to wait at least two years for a sex change on the NHS.

He found a website which gave a step-by-step guide to the eye-watering home surgery, then waited till wife Janet went out before setting to work with a kitchen knife in the loo.

With the job done, he wrapped his severed appendages in a cloth and dropped them in the bin.

Then he drove five miles to his local GP, explained what he’d done, and was packed off for treatment at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, near Aylesbury, Bucks.

Amazingly, three days later he was back at his desk.

Howard, who wants to be known as Holli, said: “It was very painful, but the moment I cut them off I felt all woman.

“It was such a relief. I’d felt all my life I was a woman trapped in a man’s body and I couldn’t wait two years dressing and living as a female to get a sex change on the NHS. I’m the sort of guy who, when I make up my mind to do something, wants it done there and then. I didn’t want to be a man any more so I decided to do it myself.”

Howard, who has two sons and has now split with his missus, is MD of their girls-only firm Women Builders — based in Bletchley.

He revealed how he began researching DIY castration after he became frustrated with medics.

He said: “None of them seemed to understand. They kept asking if I was gay or a transvestite. I’m not.

“In the end, I turned to the Net — it’s amazing what you can find.

“Following the instructions, I sterilised everything and made a tourniquet with rubber bands.

“The worst bit was steeling myself for the first cut. The whole thing took six minutes. It was agony, but I knew I couldn’t stop.”

Howard has now been referred to a gender change clinic and is awaiting approval for funding to receive female growth hormones.

He is saving up £5,000 for a full sex-change operation in Thailand. He said: “I want breasts and hips — then I can be a real woman.”

Janet, 42, who has an MBE for setting up their firm, said: “We still love each other. I’m just angry he had to take such extreme action.”


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Humor
KEYWORDS: bobbitt; mentallyill
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1 posted on 08/09/2007 2:31:09 PM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok
"I’m the sort of guy who, when I make up my mind to do something, wants it done there and then."

Not anymore you're not. Now you're wishy-washy, indecisive, overly emotional, and vindictive. Welcome to womanhood pal.
2 posted on 08/09/2007 2:33:56 PM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: llevrok
“It was very painful, but the moment I cut them off I felt all woman.

I ususally buy new shoes.

3 posted on 08/09/2007 2:35:17 PM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: llevrok
This is ONE thread where pictures won't get requested! ....


4 posted on 08/09/2007 2:38:13 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: martin_fierro; pissant

smart as* ping


5 posted on 08/09/2007 2:41:04 PM PDT by llevrok (I voted for George Bush - not Jorge Arbusto.)
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To: llevrok

You’re still not a woman.

Just a wimpy girly man with no balls.

Kinda like Congress.


6 posted on 08/09/2007 2:42:16 PM PDT by RockinRight (Fred's Campaign: A hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.)
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To: llevrok

Suiside within a year.


7 posted on 08/09/2007 2:42:50 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: MaxMax

They won’t let him attempt it when he’s in the mental hospital.


8 posted on 08/09/2007 2:45:13 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: llevrok; 75thOVI; Abathar; albee; Alice au Wonderland; Amityschild; andie74; Andy'smom; ...
BUILDING boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by CASTRATING himself so he could become a woman.


No amateurs, please.
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Now he's Shelley Howard.

9 posted on 08/09/2007 3:31:58 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: llevrok; aculeus; Charles Henrickson; dead; dighton; Lazamataz; mikrofon; Petronski; ...
BUILDING boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by CASTRATING himself so he could become a woman.


10 posted on 08/09/2007 3:34:16 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Stripped nuts)
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To: humblegunner

Any relation to you?


11 posted on 08/09/2007 3:38:40 PM PDT by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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To: martin_fierro
Janet, 42, who has an MBE for setting up their firm, said: “We still love each other. I’m just angry he had to take such extreme action.”

She's almost as much of a fruitcake as he is!

12 posted on 08/09/2007 3:42:57 PM PDT by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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To: llevrok
“It was very painful, but the moment I cut them off I felt all woman.

Now there is something you don't read everyday....

13 posted on 08/09/2007 4:12:02 PM PDT by dfwddr (Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
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“It was very painful, but the moment I cut them off I felt all woman"

Remember the Helen Reddy song, "I am woman, hear me roar!" ? I bet when he nipped 'em off and felt like a woman, he did roar!!

14 posted on 08/09/2007 4:20:25 PM PDT by llevrok (I voted for George Bush - not Jorge Arbusto.)
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15 posted on 08/09/2007 4:25:03 PM PDT by mikrofon (No Mo' Howard)
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To: llevrok

Keyboard......

You owe me a new keyboard.

ROFLMAO !!!!


16 posted on 08/09/2007 4:48:21 PM PDT by dfwddr (Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
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To: martin_fierro
.....eye-watering home surgery...

Slightly understated IMHO. Typical Brit reserve, stiff upper lip and all that, old chap

17 posted on 08/09/2007 5:16:56 PM PDT by OSHA (Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
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To: llevrok
I guess the author thought this would be a slam against socialized medicine but it does not work in my opinion. I wouldn’t care if they told people like this the wait is twenty years. Could be the docs concluded he was not mentally stable enough for this alteration in any year. In some cases it is ok to decline or delay treatment for good reasons.
18 posted on 08/09/2007 6:16:43 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: OSHA
"Typical Brit reserve, stiff upper lip and all that, old chap"

Not much else stiff about this chap anymore, alas.
19 posted on 08/09/2007 6:30:11 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Thompson 2008!])
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Not much else stiff about this chap anymore, alas.

Hardly a cock up, what?

20 posted on 08/09/2007 7:27:53 PM PDT by llevrok (I voted for George Bush - not Jorge Arbusto.)
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