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Man undergoing third sex change: ‘I hope I will finally be happy’

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Brad "Ria" Cooper, who was the UK's youngest "sex change" patient at 15, announced he is undergoing his third "sex change" operation, this time to make himself more like a woman again. This behaviour is still seen by experts as a mental health issue.  Shortly after his 18th birthday, Cooper "transitioned" back to his biological gender and lived as a "gay man." "But five years in Ria is more certain than ever that is not the real her – and is making her second attempt at becoming a woman to have the future she always dreamed of,"  The Mirror  reported.  De- transitioning back to a man "made me even more unhappy,"  Cooper said . "Now I’m going to be me – and I hope I will finally be happy."  Cooper told the UK show  This Morning  that his life went downhill after a documentary about his "transition" was released when he was 18.  "I was really depressed and I was struggling

Feminist icon: Transgender ‘women’ like Bruce Jenner aren’t women. They’re delusional.

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Australian author and feminist Germaine Greer at the 2006 Humber Mouth Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Author and '60s radical feminist Germaine Greer is coming under fire after telling the BBC that transgender "women," such as Bruce Jenner , are not women and that they don't "look like, sound like, or behave like women.” Greer was responding to a petition that was being passed around by leftist activists demanding that Cardiff University   cancel a lecture   by the radical feminist scheduled for November 18 because of her history of making statements questioning transgenderism. Criticizing Glamour magazine ’s decision to name Jenner " Woman of the Year ," Greer told the BBC, "I think misogyny plays a really big part in all of this, that a man who goes to these lengths to become a woman will be a better woman than someone who is just born a woman.” Greer suggested that Jenner's transition was part of an effort to gain attent