17 October,2009 07:21 AM IST | | Agencies
Joey Romero (8), has become a girl called Josie in a remarkable gender-swap case in the US. Josie was diagnosed as transgender at the age of six.
Her sex has been legally changed and she will undergo surgery and drug treatment to help her grow up as a woman.
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Her mother Venessia (42), said, "As a toddler she wrapped up her army figures and rocked them like a baby.
As she started to talk, she'd say, 'I'm a girl'. We used to correct her and say, 'No you're a boy'. By the time she was four she was insisting, 'No, I really am a girl'."
Her father Joseph, an engineer in the US Air Force, said, "I had mourned the loss of my son. When I came to terms with it, I knew I had gained a daughter." The girl has been educated at home in Arizona after the family suffered taunts."
Josie will be given drugs to prevent male adolescence and, at 12, get female hormones.
