The original seems to be from the Mirror.
some pertinent points:
"After undergoing years of counselling, he says he has finally discovered he wasn't transgender. Instead, he says, he was a woman suffering with horrific complex PTSD after years of sexual abuse.
"Looking back now I realise that it was simply a feeling that if I didn't have a vagina, I couldn't be raped," he revealed.
"I feel completely 'mutilated'," he added."
He says he should never have been allowed to transition, claiming sexual abuse sparked his dissatisfaction with his female body.
He alleges his father raped and abused him when he was a teenager, but died five years ago, before he could be charged.
Now, he looks in the mirror "through the eyes of that terrified 15-year-old girl and see this funny little man staring back at me".
"The thing with objectum sexuality is they are addictions and I felt compelled to have them," he recalled.
"Looking back it was just a way of coping with the trauma."
Lee tied the knot with Alan in December 1997. But his self-loathing became so extreme he almost cut off his breasts with kitchen scissors.
It was in 2002 that he first heard of transgender and gender reassignment surgery while watching an episode of the chat show Kilroy in his living room.
"The programme was introduced as a 'special' where transgender men and women were on," he said.
"At the time it was a state of mind no body really spoke about.
"I remember seeing them on the TV and thinking 'that's me!'
"I suppose they seemed confident in themselves and seemed accepted.
He has spoken out on the 'taboo' subject of gender reassignment reversal to encourage others to seek talking therapy before surgery."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-still-debbie-man-reveals-13532989
I don't know if the use of male pronouns is Lee's preference or because of press / IPSO guidelines. I'm hoping that its the former