He opted to die as he felt like a 'monster'
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44 year old Belgian transsexual Nathan Verhelst
chose to die yesterday by euthanasia after a
botched sex change operation to complete his
transformation from a woman into a man left him
a 'monster'.
He allowed doctors to inject him with a lethal
injection which killed him, on the grounds of
'unbearable psychological suffering'.
Born a girl named Nancy, his transformation into
a man began with hormone therapy in 2009,
followed by a mastectomy and finally an
operation to construct a penis last year.
But the procedures did not go according to plan.
In the hours before his death he told Belgium's
Het Laatse Nieuws:
I was the girl that nobody wanted. While my
brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room for a bedroom.
'If only you had been a boy', my mother
complained.
I was tolerated, nothing more.
'I was ready to celebrate my new birth (as a man).
But when I looked in the mirror, I was disgusted
with myself. My new breasts did not match my
expectations and my new penis had symptoms of
rejection. I do not want to be... a monster.'
His family learned of his decision this morning
via a farewell letter.
Euthanasia carried out by doctors at the request
of a patient is only legal in three European
countries, the Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg.
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