A transgender woman has told how years of psychological torture led her to try and cut off her penis – with a STANLEY KNIFE.
Nurse Kirsty Cass, born Andy Cass, was lucky to survive her desperate act of self-mutilation after living for years in the wrong body.
Kirsty, now 53 and living in Crawley, West Sussex, is writing a novel to tell all about her struggle with gender dysphoria.
Kirsty was born a man
After a failed marriage she spiralled into depression and in 2009 tried to dismember herself and nearly bled to death.
Kirsty, who has a child with her ex-wife, said: “I was sitting at my computer desk one night and I had been drinking quite heavily as usual.
“I looked down at my penis and thought ‘that shouldn’t be there’, that’s foreign, it doesn’t belong to me. I had a tool box in the cupboard and got a Stanley knife out.
“I’ve never experienced pain like it. But that was the turning point.”
“A doctor later told me if I had fully severed it, I couldn’t have had the sex change operation, because it is needed during the surgery.”
Kirsty knew her life as a man was a lie
After a failed marriage Kirsty fell into depression
After psychiatric assessments Kirsty was diagnosed as having gender dysphoria and in 2013 she was operated on to complete her transformation.
Even from a very young age she felt more comfortable dressing in her mum’s clothes and struggled with her feelings but did marry and have a child.
She finally told her wife the way she feels but their relationship ended amicably and they divorced.
Kirsty said: “I was in a state and I needed help. I had been bottling up those feelings for all those years. I was very lucky I didn’t die.”
