As she coddles her infant son at her home in the Chicago suburbs, newlywed Daisy Strongin says she deeply regrets having both of her breasts removed in gender transition surgery when she was 20.
She was an “insecure, very self-involved, outcasted 15-year-old girl,” Strongin said, and the urge to transition was “enticing.”
“I really wanted to feel comfortable in my own skin and I wanted to stop being depressed. I wanted to be someone else. I hated myself. I didn’t want to be the person that I was, and transitioning seemed to be this very alluring path that was beckoning to me,” she said….