Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler interviews Rene Jax, author of multiple books, including “Don’t Get on the Plane: Why A Sex Change Will Ruin Your Life.”
[SADLER] Can you tell us a little bit about your background and your story?
[JAX] I listened to your interview with the doctor, you were talking about children and sex changes. I was born a boy. And because of being raised in a single home with a crazy woman, I was really confused about how to be a boy. At this point in my life, I realize that families — if you’ve got children — you need to have both a man and a woman in the home.
Growing up so confused about myself and what being a man was, by the time I was about 12 or 15, about that age, I really had the belief that I hated my body. I hated being a man. I hated everything about being a man. And if I were a girl, my life would be better. And as a result of that, by the time I was probably 22, I had made the decision that I had to live as a woman. And so I had lived presenting myself as a woman for about 12 years with just taking estrogen. Then in 1990, I went through with the full sex change and had lived up until about three years ago presenting myself as a woman.
The estrogen took a terrible toll on my body because male bodies should not have estrogen. And I kept learning the lesson that this idea of gender affirming surgery, it’s a fallacy. All doctors are doing is creating a eunuch. Someone who is sexless, someone whose health is compromised because of the surgeries, because of the drugs they give.
About three years ago, I de-transitioned. Now I’m in my 70s, went back to living as a guy, got off of the estrogen. And it took about a year, Kelly, before my health cleared up. My health has not been this good in probably 15 to 18 years. So about eight years ago, I started seeing through the cracks of this fallacy of sex change and wrote the book. It not only ruined my life, it ruins everybody’s life.
[SADLER] When you were 12 years old and going through this confusion, you said you were living with your single mother at the time. Did you have any brothers or sisters?
[JAX] I did, but they were much older and they were out of the home.
[SADLER] So you were going to school and you just didn’t like your body?
[JAX] Well, let’s be honest. No kid going through puberty likes their body, but because I didn’t have a family to fall back on to help explain this, it just got out of hand.
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