UK's youngest sex-swap patient wants to return to original sex

Britain's youngest sex-swap patient wants to go back to being a boy.

Ria Cooper, 18 – who used to be known as Brad - has been having hormone injections to enable her to change from a boy into a girl and despite developing breasts, dating young men and wearing her hair in a bob, she wants to go back to being male.

The teenager – who started having hormone injections aged 17 – told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: “Life has really got on top of me recently. The hormones have made me feel up and down. One minute I feel moody and the next minute I feel really happy.

“A couple of months ago I’d had enough and took a lot of paracetamol but my friend found me and made me sick. Just before that, I’d tried to slash my wrists and ended up in hospital. I get these dark moods when ­nothing seems right.

“The night I tried to slash my wrists I’d downed a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and just thought about how alone I am, how my decision has alienated my family and how I will have to become a boy again to resolve it.

“I don’t want to live in isolation, away from everyone I love. This is the only way forward. I just want to be happy and this is my last chance.”

Ria – who been dressing as a girl since she was 12 years old – is booked to have a full transgender operation in January but she no longer wants to go ahead with the surgery.