A “tomboy” who had sex change surgery as a teenager has a warning for others about rushing into gender changing surgery.
After transitioning to male, Keira Bell now says she accepts herself as a female and has stopped taking male hormones.
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A year after starting the puberty-blockers she said she was prescribed the male hormone testosterone, which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice. Three years ago, she had an operation to remove her breasts…She decided to stop taking cross-sex hormones last year and said she was now accepting of her sex as a female. But she was also angry about what had happened to her in the last decade.
Initially I felt very relieved and happy about things, but I think as the years go on you start to feel less and less enthusiastic or even happy about things.
Keira Bell
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This is the story of my life, I was raised in philly, pa was nothing but a tomboy, I been talking about my feelings “why God did you make me a girl” all my life. loving football,baseball,boxing, hated dolls. When we were having fights with the next street over they automatically said Delores will fight HIM and I would. But a strange thing happened right before I turned 13. I started noticing I was getting attracted to boys and did not want them to see me in that light anymore and started to take care of myself, physically and healthy wise. That was back in the 50’s and early 60’s.
I get really upset when I read about giving very young kids Hormone treatments. Thank God I was raised in a time when grown-ups had common sense and brains.
Thanks for letting me rant
So happy you were allowed to just ‘grow up’. The pain, agony, and mutilation of children because the influence of their elders is wicked and awful. My heart bleeds for those that have been manipulated in their tender years by adults who are supposed to look out for them.
THANKS FOR USEING THE WORD( TOMBOY) IN HERE . IT IS OFFTEN MISS UNDERSTOUED . (IT MEANS A LITTLE GIRL THAT IS AS MEAN AND TUFF AS THE BOYS. IN TIME THEY WILL BECOME THE BEST KIND OF LADY. ( AND IN LIFE THEY ARE NOT ABUSED BY ANY MAN. ) HERE IN THE SOUTH (FL ) IT IS A WORD THAT IS OFFTEN MISSUSED TO PUT THE USER DOWN. MAYBE THIS MIGHT OPEN THERE EYES . THIS MAKES ME THINK OF JEST HOW MANY WENT THIS PATH . BECAUSE THEM AROUND THEM DID NOT UNDERSTAND
Great job explaining
i was a tomboy and in many ways, i still am. much prefer the company of men, dont care for dresses and skirts. oh and dont mess with me :P
WHERE MY LAST COMMENT I JEST PUT ON HERE . THIS MEANS YOUR GOING DOWN HILL TO ME
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This is the story of my life, I was raised in philly, pa was nothing but a tomboy, I been talking about my feelings “why God did you make me a girl” all my life. loving football,baseball,boxing, hated dolls. When we were having fights with the next street over they automatically said Delores will fight HIM and I would. But a strange thing happened right before I turned 13. I started noticing I was getting attracted to boys and did not want them to see me in that light anymore and started to take care of myself, physically and healthy wise. That was back in the 50’s and early 60’s.
I get really upset when I read about giving very young kids Hormone treatments. Thank God I was raised in a time when grown-ups had common sense and brains.
Thanks for letting me rant
haha yeah was never fond of dolls, poor mom spent the year making baby doll clothes for the doll i got for xmas when i was around 6. played with my brothers’ tonka toys :) and their cap guns instead. as a teen i could clean jerk my weight from ground to over my head (abt 125lbs at that time). played percussion in the middle and high school band. climbed rocks and trees. used to wrestle with the neighbor boys and win. was always chosen early for neighborhood football games. i was on the line. got into a fight when i was 14. he wears my scar (only my teeth for wpns :P). my main selling point is that i DO NOT need the 50k words a day most women seem to be required to speak. i am quite the quiet female. men love that :)
My little sister used to follow me around when we were kids, she had to have the same colored ball cap I had.
I never gave it much thought, it was just who she was then. I remember giving her a roll of quarters and teaching her how to hit that rusted old fridge out back.
These days most would not ever think there was a Tomboy hiding under the glamour girls she has grown into.
Just don’t think you can push her around, she’s got a right cross that will drop a Brahma!
Driving age; 16-18
Drinking age: 18-21
Legal adult: 18
Gun purchase: 18
Vote: 18
Live on your own: 18
How come you’re allowed to get a sex change at 13 if you can’t even buy a drink?
I wonder if there is any liability on the part of doctors for these treatments and operations. They are being done to minors. Are minors able to sign waivers and would they stand up in court?
I wasn’t a tomboy, but I’ll be damned if I knew what I wanted or where I was headed when I was 10, 12, 15. Glad no one would have listened to me! I was raised knowing that I only got to make serious decisions about my life when I was of majority and not dependent on my parents. Even then I didn’t make such good ones for a while! :-)
I married a tomboy, resulting in a beautiful, baby girl. Of my four grandchildren, two are girls. The oldest has always been a girlie-girl and the other was a tomboy who, now a teen, is maturing into a more feminine identity and personality. I am very fortunate.
This is frequently encountered with sex changes. There are some very deep issues that a sex change doesn’t address. These people go through with the hormones, which severely effect their emotions and thinking, then surgery, only to find themselves confronted with the same problems but now also with being a different sex than they were before. It’s insane.
I lived in a small town, small school. The girls and boys had to play together to have two teams for baseball, basketball, etc. None of us were confused about our sex. Now I am 84 and never heard of anyone thinking they were the other sex in the wrong body until about 10 years ago. This is being taught.
The LGBT WHATEVER has done serious damage to out last few generations.
IMHO the Tomboys of this world are here for a good reason; to show boys what to look for when they mature enough to marry.
10-20 years from now? A flood of lawsuits coming down the pike for abusing minors.
I knew from the age of 4 that I was in the wrong body. I wanted to play with the girls and dolls and do girl things. I was a troubled child the entire time growing up. I tried to fit in and do boy things, with some success, and at times over compensated.
As the years passed that knowledge got stronger. I married, had children and a job. There was little happiness in my life. It’s pretty much a secret to this day for most who know me (though a few do know).
It’s harmed my relationships and my sense of self worth and parts of my life, even to this day (50 some years later) and that knowledge, those feelings have never left me.
Unfortunately boys still have far less freedom to blur gender lines even if is has gotten a bit easier in recent years. Girls have far more freedom and this is effects many aspects of this issue. Rates of transitioning, satisfaction afterwards, public perception.
In any given surgical procedure there’s going to be a certain percentage of people who are dissatisfied with the results and regret their decision. Making blanket policies based on those few is over-reacting.
Using puberty blockers is a delicate yet tough decision. For those who’s feelings are relatively short term delaying them is good. As is for those who are less restricted by gender norms.
For those who are truly transgender delaying them isn’t good. It’s far easier to delay or prevent secondary sex traits than to reverse them. More so in the Male to Female procedure.
At the same time taking great steps to ensure that the person receiving them is an appropriate treatment can lead to as much angst as taking too little and can lead to charges about “conversion therapy” and other “treatments”. It can also allow the development of secondary sex traits and make eventual transition much harder.
Keep in mind that sex is the physical part, what you’re born with and XX or XY. Gender is different. It’s partly cultural and the roles society tries to impose on us. It’s partly genetic also. If you observe a group of children young enough to not be fully aware of sex differences you’ll see most girls doing typically “girl” things and most boys doing typically “boy” things.
Here’s a good article on for the argument that gender identity and sexual preferences are, at least in part, genetic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-11814300