'He tried to cut off his manhood with craft scissors': The torment of transgender boy before finding peace as nine-year-old girl
By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 10:50 EST, 2 October 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2211729/Transgender-Danann-Tyler-9-tried-cut-penis-craft-scissors.htmlWhen Danann Tyler was just two years old, he insisted he was a girl, and asked to wear dresses and grow his hair.
His yoga instructor mother, Sarah, 39, and father Bill, 45, a police officer, struggled to explain his behaviour, and put it down to a phase. However two years later, Danann attempted to cut off his penis with a pair of scissors.
'I found him in the playroom trying to cut off his penis with a pair of craft scissors,' the mother from Orange County, California, told Closer magazine. 'He was weirdly calm, saying, "I'm going to get rid of this". I felt sick.'