'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

"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.