(TheBlaze) – Keira Bell of the United Kingdom told BBC News she was a tomboy as a child — and the sense she needed to transition to a male occurred gradually as she read about it online.
Bell soon sought the assistance of medicine at age 16, went to a clinic, and after three appointments lasting an hour each she was prescribed puberty blockers, the outlet said. A year later Bell told the BBC she was prescribed the male hormone testosterone, which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice — and three years ago, she got her breasts removed.
“Initially I felt very relieved and happy about things,” Bell told the outlet. “But I think as the years go on you start to feel less and less enthusiastic or even happy about things.” In the end, she decided to stop taking cross-sex hormones last year. Now at 23, Bell noted to the BBC that she accepts her sex as a female — but she’s also angry about what happened to her.
“I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager,” Bell told the outlet, adding that “it has affected me in the long run as an adult. I’m very young. I’ve only just stepped into adulthood, and I have to deal with this kind of burden or radical difference — in comparison to others at least.”
More than that, she told the BBC that others should have pushed back against her decision. “I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for myself,” Bell told the outlet. “And I think that would have made a big difference as well. If I was just challenged on the things I was saying.” READ MORE
