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News and Events => People news => Topic started by: Shana A on October 15, 2009, 10:28:36 AM

Title: Josie aged 8... born a boy named Joey
Post by: Shana A on October 15, 2009, 10:28:36 AM
Josie aged 8... born a boy named Joey

By CHRIS POLLARD

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2682911/Child-aged-eight-chose-sex-swap.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2682911/Child-aged-eight-chose-sex-swap.html)

JOSIE Romero looks and acts like any other eight-year-old girl - but was born a BOY named Joey.

At FOUR she insisted to her parents: "I am really a girl." At FIVE she was refusing to have her hair cut. And at SIX she had been diagnosed as transgender.

Now her sex has been legally changed and with the help of drugs and surgery she will grow up to be a woman.

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Boy, 8, has 'sex change'
An eight-year-old boy, Joey Romero, has become a girl called Josie in a remarkable US gender-swap case that features in a new Channel 4 documentary.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6333217/Boy-8-has-sex-change.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6333217/Boy-8-has-sex-change.html)

By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 10:50AM BST 15 Oct 2009

Josie was diagnosed as transgender at the age of six.

Her sex has been legally changed and she will undergo surgery and drug treatment to help her grow up as a woman.

Her family, from Arizona, tell their story as part of a new Channel 4 Bodyshock documentary to be shown next week.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220577/Pictured-Josie-transgender-year-old-born-boy.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220577/Pictured-Josie-transgender-year-old-born-boy.html)