Gender Identity Disorder, or GID, is a diagnosis to describe someone who feels dissatisfied with their current state of gender. 16:9 on Global showed a little news story/documentary about GID and gave 2 examples of it. The two stories were that of Kim Petras and Josie Romero. Both of these little boys ended up choosing to be girls. Because I found Kim Petras’ story to be more interesting to me, I’m going to be talking about her in this blog.
Kim was born a boy named Tim, but soon found her body to feel awkward and uncomfortable. When she went to a psychologist, she received hormone blockers which basically block the male hormones from evolving so she doesn’t start growing facial hair and such. By the age of 16, she finally went to get surgery to “exchange” her genitals and she started to receive drugs to start engaging her female estrogen and diffusing her male hormones. After the surgery, she said that it felt right. It took 16 years for her to finally be and feel like herself. You may think that her parents didn’t feel the same way as she did about her gender transition, but they were with her from beginning to end. Her loving parents didn’t want to see her so unhappy all the time and they knew she did not want to be a he at a very young age. They didn’t want to make her suffer anymore than she already has.
To this day, Kim is now an aspiring German teen pop singer. She’s been on the news numerous times for her transgender story and her music. She’s about 17 years old so it’s been a year since her surgery and she doesn’t seem to regret it at all.
What’s interesting about this is that before I watched this story, my friend showed me a picture of her and asked me what I saw. Of course, I just said I saw a girl but she told me that this girl was originally a guy. I was so surprised when I heard that because she doesn’t look anything like a guy. It’s unbelievable to me since I had no clue and probably everyone else won’t know either.
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