https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12566181/I-awkward-tomboy-young-needed-say-okay-girl-trans-community-insisted-MAN-heartbreaking-story-detransition.html
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A former trans man who detransitioned back to being a woman has slammed gender ideology and cautioned against teaching children they can change sex.
Hazel Appleyard, 31, from Leamington, was referred to a gender clinic aged 17 after she said she wanted to become a man.
She even intended to make herself infertile by having an operation to remove her uterus.
The detransitioner is now a mother-of-one and said she was 'lucky' to escape the trans community before too much harm was done.
She told MailOnline: 'I don't think anyone believes trans women are women.
'People who have been brought up around political correctness - we have been raised to be accepting people but this time it might have been taken too far.

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Even though being trans is not a widespread issue, the trans community is extremely vocal and issues around gender and sex have become the source of fierce public debate.
Hazel explained how she was influenced by the internet.
When she was younger, Hazel used the website Live Journal to meet other gender-questioning and trans people.
She said being 'exposed to more people who were identifying as trans got me thinking'.
She added: 'On those kinds of echo chambers I would see people say, "I'm not sure if I'm trans" but then the trans people would say, "If you feel that way then you are that way".
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She even intended to have a sex change operation.
However, she said with time the feelings went away.
She said: 'It kind of just faded. One day it was strong and I was thinking about ending my life. One day I woke up and didn't feel so bad any more.
'I just fell out of the trans community.
I slowly slipped back in [to being a girl]. I got some c**p from kids at school but I managed to assimilate back.
'Since then when you speak out against it, against the trans community, you get a lot of pushback.
'They don't want to [know] that there's a potential that people make mistakes.
'They are really very set on denying people who detransition.'
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She said: 'Autistic kids need to be protected from this ideology. I was so vulnerable.
'We need to be really, really careful of these kids who are vulnerable and impressionable and already feel lost.
'What I needed as a child was to know it was okay to be a girl who didn't act like the other girls.
'I was just a kid. Yes I'm a girl and I'm different but that's okay.
'I have come out the other side. If they let me do that where would I be?
'I have got a child now. I was so close to losing all of these things.
'I see those kids who want what I wanted. What if they change their minds too but it's too late? I feel really lucky.
'The thing that disturbs me is that I don't think people are born trans.
'If you raise kids who don't know about trans that gives them the better chance of growing up and being themselves.
'Kids who identify as a different gender - it doesn't help to transition them.'