MODEL WHO IS NOW DE-TRANSITIONING SPEAKS ABOUT TAVISTOCK CLINIC SCANDAL

A model who underwent 11 surgeries in one day to make his features more feminine is now
de-transitioning.
Influencer Oli London has been living as a transgender female for six months.
Now, with lived experience, Oli is warning others of the dangers of transitioning too quickly.
In an exclusive interview with GB News Oli said: “What we’re seeing now, the issue we have with the Tavistock Clinic that’s finally being shut down, is the fact that there are no checks and balances there. They are fast-tracking children onto hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries and that’s the real harm. They’re often misdiagnosing kids that might have an eating disorder, they might have body dysmorphia, they are misdiagnosing them and then fast-tracking them onto this process of transition and it’s really harmful and there’s no long-term research to see the effects this is having on children’s bodies.”
Revealing the details that have led up to the decision to go through detransition, Oli, 33, told Nana Akua: “As a teen, I always used to get bullied about the way I looked. And as a kid, I used to play with Barbie dolls. I didn’t used to do traditional boy things, so I didn’t play football or rugby. I was more interested in Barbie dolls and even dressing up in girls’ costumes. So, I always questioned my identity. When I was at school people used to say I was ugly, or I didn’t look very good or I was more feminine. So that really affected my self-confidence and that led me on this journey to kind of try to change the way I looked and change my identity.”
Oli recalled always wanting to change the looks of his nose but when the surgery went wrong in 2013 it led to him having to get more.
“It became a snowball effect and then I kind of became addicted,” Oli said. “I was questioning who I was, I was living in Korea, and I was thinking, I want to have a certain aesthetic to fit into this particular society I’m living in. I’ve had 32 surgeries in total. I’ve gone under the knife about 11 times under anesthetic and now I’ve quit. I got to a point where last year I became transgender – I always struggled with my gender. I had gender dysphoria and I had facial feminisation, and it gave me temporary happiness. After a certain period of time, I realised there’s more to life than just having surgery and more to life than trying to change myself. I knew I needed to find happiness from within. So, I was going to therapy, I was going to church, and it really helped me get perspective in life and what’s important.”
Revealing the impact so much surgery has had on him Oli continued: “It got to a point where I’d had surgery and I still wasn’t happy. I used to look back at my childhood and think as a kid I used to like playing dress up with the girl’s clothes in the costume box that I had at my house. I always used to think I was more feminine, more girly and people would always say I was more girly. So that was really affecting my mind.”