Case study: 'My son was six when he first demanded a sex change'
Nicki was born a boy but as early as 18-months-old, she was already trying on her mother's dresses and underwear.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
15 Apr 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... hange.html
At nursery, she shunned boys' games and preferred to play with the girls.
By four, Nicki was telling her mother Sharon, an IT manager, that "God made a mistake by making me a boy".
Two years later, she was already asking for a sex change operation.
It was at this point that Sharon, now 42, decided to attend the Gender Identity Development (GID) service at the Tavistock and Portman mental health trust in North London.
Shortly after, Sharon also decided it was time to allow Nicki to attend primary school in female clothes.
"By this time, Nicki was telling everyone she had a girl brain in a boy body," said Sharon.
"She got quite a lot of stick because she was going to school as a boy and saying she was a girl.
"So, at eight, we made the decision not to let her do that.
"I let her grow her hair and she got a blouse and a skirt. She didn't have to wear boys' clothes at all anymore.
"As soon as I did that she was so much happier and the other kids understood it because she looked like a girl now."
But matters took a turn for the worse when Nicki moved on to secondary school, where she became suicidal because of bullying.
"She took four overdoses," said Sharon, from Yorkshire.
"For a year and a half she was spat at, kicked, punched, pushed over.
"One day, when she was walking home from school a group of boys surrounded her and tried to pull her skirt down."
"When she first got to the school, one boy announced 'So where is the tranny?' It was awful."
With the abuse expected to get worse as Nicki got closer to puberty, her mother began to look into the possibility of her daughter being prescribed hormone blockers.
She went back to the Tavistock clinic but was told they were unable to prescribe the treatment because it was against their guidelines to do any interventions before 16.
Fearing that her daughter may take her own life if forced to go through puberty, she went to an American expert Dr Norman Spack in Boston.
To her relief, Dr Spack, who runs a Gender Identity Disorder clinic in Boston, agreed to prescribe the 13-year-old Nicki the blockers.
Now 17, she has had a sex change operation and works as a care assistant.
"She holds down a full time and has been with her boyfriend for 18 months and she is gorgeous," said Sharon.
"I am absolutely positive she would not be here without the treatment."
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Here is the response I posted in the Daily Telegraph's "comments" section. I hope the moderator does not censor it, as I do believe I make well thought out, if not irrefutable, arguments against what is truly propaganda:
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This is called "Health News?" It looks more like, highly specious, pro-homosexual propaganda to me. First off if Nicki has a "boyfriend," both of them are committing homosexuality, as Nicki was born a boy and no amount of surgery and hormones will ever alter this fact.
Second of all, this story is way too rosy for me to accept unequivocally. I worked with many transsexual patients over the years, pre-op and post-op. In all my career, I have never seen such a rosy story as this. Most transsexuals subjectively claim they are happy with their surgery, but the same psychological problems plaguing the transsexual subculture persist after the surgery, as before: promiscuity, drug abuse, violence, high risk STDs and HIV, suicide, etc.....
A few of the biological men and women who mutilate themselves and declare themselves the gender they are not, later on regret their surgery and want to undo the damage done to them by this quack medicine.
Here is the testimony of one "Gender Identity Expert" who I wish the media would give more coverage to, if only to add balance to what I believe is complete nonsense, emanating from stories such as this:
"I have witnessed a great deal of damage from sex-reassignment. The children transformed from their male constitution into female roles suffered prolonged distress and misery as they sensed their natural attitudes. Their parents usually lived with guilt over their decisions—second-guessing themselves and somewhat ashamed of the fabrication, both surgical and social, they had imposed on their sons. As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their “true” sexual identity and to have heard about sex-change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex. We have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it."
Paul McHugh, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
Bill Whatcott
P.s: What 6 year old would be demanding a so-called "sex change operation," if his parents or educators were not putting that kind of nonsense in his poor little mind?
