I'm sure there are many people who can relate to this. Unfortunately, she makes no mention of the fact that this it happened today she would likely have been pushed down a road of irreversible surgery and hormones, and may not have been able to have her children.
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Holly Branson, the daughter of Virgin billionaire Richard Branson, has revealed that she spent seven years of her childhood identifying as a boy.
The 39-year-old has said that she spent the ages between four and eleven dressing in boys’ clothes and giving herself male names.
Speaking to Natalie Pinkham on the In The Pink Podcast, the mum-of-three told how at the age of four she ‘decided’ she was a boy: ‘It wasn’t that I wanted to be a boy, it was that I was a boy.’
She explained that she first began to identify as a boy shortly after the birth of her brother and that she had a desire to be the same as him.
‘It was just after my brother was born and I don’t know whether looking back on it now, it was some sort of psychological thing that a boy was born and was getting lots of attention and I wanted to be like him,’ she said.
'I stood up to pee, I dressed like a boy, I even gave myself different male names.’
‘I was so lucky to have parents that were really accepting of it, that they didn’t question any of it, they let me be who I wanted to be.’
The chair of Virgin Unite explained that after seven years, she went back to identifying as a girl when she received a dress as a gift for Christmas.
Holly told Natalie how said had requested the dress as a present but her mother didn’t want to give it to her in case it felt ‘too pressurised’ so instead she asked a family friend to gift her the dress.
‘…that was the turning point,’ Holly said. ‘From then on, I was back to being female.’