by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite News:
Earlier this week, The Daily Wire published a gut-wrenching editorial penned by Sophie Ottaway titled “Doctors Performed A Sex Change Operation On Me At Two-Days-Old. I Found Out Decades Later.” It is yet another cautionary tale detailing the folly of gender ideology and the suffering borne by its victims.
When Sophie was 22, Ottaway discovered something stunning during a “routine trip to the doctor’s office” – that Ottaway was born male. Two days after birth, doctors had decided to remove “my split penis and testes” and “directed my parents to raise me as a female,” ordering them to keep this fact from Sophie “under the guise of psychological protection.” Ottaway is now 37 and decided to pen the editorial to lay out “the journey I undertook to make peace with myself and my body.”
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Sophie had a largely happy childhood in the North of England, but was lied to by both parents and physicians. Urological problems were constantly present; Sophie was told that this was due to a “rare birth condition” and that “I’d been born with ovaries, but due to my condition, they’d been damaged and removed at birth.” As Sophie became a teen, the complications of this condition became clear as periods never came, and estrogen was prescribed:
I started to understand how my lack of vagina would impact my future relationships. At the same time, I knew I had very little interest in the boys around me and struggled to come to terms with the idea that I was most likely gay. I spiraled into a dark period of depression and in my college years began to find an outlet for my pain in drink, drugs, and heavy metal music.
After Sophie found out the truth about being born male – accidentally seeing the evidence on the doctor’s computer screen during a checkup – a 13-year period of intense denial followed, accompanied by anger at the parents and medical system that had made the decision and kept it secret. Several years ago, a specialist in Manchester finally gave the medical condition that plagued Sophie a name: cloacal exstrophy:
Cloacal exstrophy, also known as OEIS syndrome, is a rare birth condition which occurs in around 1 in 400,000 live births. It is a severe birth defect severely affecting the lower abdominal organs. The child can be born with their bladder and intestines on the outside of their body. The penis can also be either flat or split into two halves, which was the case with me.
In later years, as I began researching medical papers on my condition, I discovered that in the 1980s it was common practice for surgeons to reassign the gender of male babies born with cloacal exstrophy. In many cases, the penis and testes were removed and a pseudo vagina created in its place. Patients were often never formally told of their birth gender and were left to discover the information either by accident or never at all.
In 2021, Sophie experienced intense pain, with a fistula opening up near the genital area and leaking fluid and was admitted to the hospital. An attending surgeon, having discovered that Sophie had undergone a sex change at birth, stated that the reason for the emergency was “a failed pseudo vagina had been left in my abdomen from an earlier surgery.” When the surgeon who had performed the original sex change surgery was contacted, he confirmed that “a pseudo vagina… may have been put into my body when I was just two-days old.” This discovery was the last straw:
