Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts
Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing
The first regretter to speak out publicly
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The first regretter to speak out publicly

Claudia McLean's memoir, Rejected, tells the harrowing story of a brutalised child, a young gay man in love, and being railroaded into "sex change surgery".

“I was diagnosed in 45 minutes, I’ve already been taking hormones, and I was fast tracked into surgery which I paid for myself, all my own money, because I thought it was wrong to get it done on the NHS.” McLean was prescribed irreversible cross-sex hormones at the age of 26, and underwent full genital reconstruction surgery two years later in 1986.”

Listen to the recording of the book launch, at which I was in conversation with Claudia.

You can buy Rejected: A Memoir, here.

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