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| Rupert Everett warns of dangers of child gender reassignment operations | |
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| The actor Rupert Everett has warned about the dangers of children having gender reassignment operations, suggesting there should be a way for them to embrace the “ambivalence” of their gender rather than resorting to medical procedures. | |
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| The 57-year-old, who is gay, revealed he wanted to be a girl as he grew up and dressed exclusively as one when he was a child. He suggested that Caitlyn Jenner, the TV personality and Olympian who was formerly Bruce Jenner, had made a mistake in undergoing gender transition and had “no clue” what being transsexual involved. | The 57-year-old, who is gay, revealed he wanted to be a girl as he grew up and dressed exclusively as one when he was a child. He suggested that Caitlyn Jenner, the TV personality and Olympian who was formerly Bruce Jenner, had made a mistake in undergoing gender transition and had “no clue” what being transsexual involved. |
| Everett, currently starring in the BBC1 show The Musketeers, told the Sunday Times magazine: “I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then, because I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman. After I was 15 I never wanted to be a woman again.” | Everett, currently starring in the BBC1 show The Musketeers, told the Sunday Times magazine: “I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then, because I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman. After I was 15 I never wanted to be a woman again.” |
| He believes parents who “get medical” are scary, saying: “It’s nice to be allowed to express yourself, but the hormone thing, very young, is a big step. I think a lot of children have an ambivalence when they’re very young to what sex they are or what they feel about everyone. And there should be a way of embracing it.” | He believes parents who “get medical” are scary, saying: “It’s nice to be allowed to express yourself, but the hormone thing, very young, is a big step. I think a lot of children have an ambivalence when they’re very young to what sex they are or what they feel about everyone. And there should be a way of embracing it.” |
| He also spoke of how his former girlfriend Beatrice Dalle, the French actor, thought she might have been pregnant with his child. Everett told the magazine: “She and I often talk about what would have happened if we’d both had this child. And I would have loved to have had that child, actually. God, it probably would have been in rehab by now.” | He also spoke of how his former girlfriend Beatrice Dalle, the French actor, thought she might have been pregnant with his child. Everett told the magazine: “She and I often talk about what would have happened if we’d both had this child. And I would have loved to have had that child, actually. God, it probably would have been in rehab by now.” |
| He also revealed that he was “turning into his mother”, and planned to move back in with her in Norfolk. | He also revealed that he was “turning into his mother”, and planned to move back in with her in Norfolk. |