News and Events => People news => Topic started by: Shana A on February 09, 2012, 10:38:02 AM Return to Full Version
Title: 'Croydon Trans Group saved my life'
Post by: Shana A on February 09, 2012, 10:38:02 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 09, 2012, 10:38:02 AM
'Croydon Trans Group saved my life'
Thursday, February 09, 2012
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-Trans-Group-saved-life/story-15175700-detail/story.html (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-Trans-Group-saved-life/story-15175700-detail/story.html)
"I KNEW I was born into the wrong body really young, I was seven. I didn't feel normal. I was supposed to be a girl, I just wasn't born that way."
Helen Doe was born a boy, but says her whole life has been "one long struggle" as she fought to find her own identity.
Now 50, Helen only started dressing and living her life as a woman three years ago after decades of "pain and suffering" living as a man – during which time she says she even contemplated taking her own life.
She said: "It is the hardest thing you can imagine. You are dealing with your own thoughts while worrying about what your friends and family will say.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-Trans-Group-saved-life/story-15175700-detail/story.html (http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-Trans-Group-saved-life/story-15175700-detail/story.html)
"I KNEW I was born into the wrong body really young, I was seven. I didn't feel normal. I was supposed to be a girl, I just wasn't born that way."
Helen Doe was born a boy, but says her whole life has been "one long struggle" as she fought to find her own identity.
Now 50, Helen only started dressing and living her life as a woman three years ago after decades of "pain and suffering" living as a man – during which time she says she even contemplated taking her own life.
She said: "It is the hardest thing you can imagine. You are dealing with your own thoughts while worrying about what your friends and family will say.