Stephanie Hirst

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Loose Women fans calls for trans radio DJ Stephanie Hirst to join ... (PinkNews)

Loose Women viewers would like to see transgender radio star Stephanie Hirst join the show as a regular panellist following TV appearance.

Great chat on @loosewomen for anyone who feels they were born into the wrong body,” another wrote. Someone give her a proper long term tv contract please.” Viewers were moved by Hirst’s message as one tweeted: “Well what a revelation @StephanieHirst was on tv today. “You have to be prepared to jump through some hoops of fire if you are going to go through something like this. “Big fan of @StephanieHirst. Wonderfully honest, reachable & clear. A third fan added: “@StephanieHirst looking and sounding great on #LooseWomen 🏳️⚧️I know the haters will be out, but I hope her words are an encouragement to many.”

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DJ Stephanie Hirst Tells ITV Loose Woman The Doctor Said She ... (The Miracle Tech)

Transgender radio presenter Stephanie Hearst on ITV's . appeared on loose Women TODAY, talking about her journey through gender reassignment surgery and ...

No, you have to go and sit there, but I’ll still go and sit with the girls. She explained to the Loose Woman hosts that she had known about her gender dysphoria since she was three years old. Yorkshire-born Stephanie said: “At school, when they put all the girls on one side of the classroom and all the boys on the other, I would default to go and sit with the girls.” The teachers used to tell me.

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Stephanie Hirst claims her doctor advised her that if she transitioned ... (BOL News)

Stephanie Hirst, a radio host, has stated that as a teenager, a doctor advised her not to transition because she would risk losing her family and friends.

Someone give her a proper long term tv contract please.” “I remember getting back in my car and just crying my eyes out.” Stephanie Hirst, a radio host, has stated that as a teenager, a doctor advised her not to transition because she would risk losing her family and friends.

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Stephanie Hirst says a doctor warned she would 'not have a ... (Daily Mail)

The BBC Radio Leeds host, 47, who announced that she was going through gender reassignment in 2014, explained to the Loose Women panel the challenges she ...

I know people that have transitioned without having a lot of money in the bank or anything like that and they've done it wonderfully. 'Biology sometimes I see it, it gets a little bit drunk and puts things in the wrong order. I ended up going out to lunch with a friend of mine Kate, who I told when I was 17 just after I went to the doctor for the first time. I had always been saving because I knew that I was going to do this one day. 'But you know get the right people, get the right help and the right professionals. I told her "I just couldn't live I want to die, I can't do this any longer, I'm living a lie. She said: 'I got to a point where I couldn't continue any longer and I was constantly thinking about it. 'It's like when you get your first bike you go to the end of your street then you get a bit braver and you go straight ahead. I would want to turn my car into the central reservation, I kid you not, every day for over a decade. I decided in my Vauxhall Nova in that car park, radio, that's the thing that makes it go away. I would just default and go and sit with the girls. I think a lot of mums did that because there was no information.

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Yorkshire DJ Stephanie Hirst shares painful moment doctor told her ... (Leeds Live)

Stephanie Hirst made a guest appearance on ITV's Loose Women show to talk about feeling trapped in the wrong body.

As she expressed how this moment made her feel she continued: “I remember getting back in my car and just crying my eyes out and that was the point when I just thought radio that’s it. “I went to see him and told him how I felt and he said something along the lines of strongly recommending you don’t take this path in life as you will lose family, friends and you won’t have a successful life.” Stephanie took time out of her career to focus on her personal life in 2014 however made a comeback in 2018 and started a new job at the BBC hosting the Stephanie Hirst Show on BBC Radio Leeds.

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DJ Stephanie Hirst tells ITV Loose Women that doctor said she ... (Hull Daily Mail)

The radio presenter opened up about how it felt to live in the wrong body and how radio saved her life.

She thought that it would just go away and I think a lot of mums thought that because there was no information." Psychotherapy was really helpful for me because it helped me make the right decision." It was amazing." She said: "His words were something along the lines of, 'I strongly recommend you don't go down this path in life, you'll lose family and friends and you won't have a successful life'. I remember getting back in my car and just crying my eyes out. "The teachers would tell me no, you have to go and sit over there, but I would still just go and sit with the girls. I think the kids at school worked out I was different before I did.

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Stephanie Hirst says doctor told her she'd lose family and friends if ... (The Independent)

'I remember getting back in my car and just crying my eyes out,' the Hits Radio presenter recalled.

“I remember getting back in my car and just crying my eyes out.” Someone give her a proper long term tv contract please.” Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “Whereas now, if you go to your doctors and you are referred to a gender identity clinic, it’s between three and five years,” she said. It was struggling with suicidal thoughts that prompted Hirst to transition in 2014, with the DJ saying she was lucky to have a doctor who quickly referred her to a gender identity clinic. Radio presenter Stephanie Hirst has revealed that a doctor told her as a teenager that she shouldn’t transition or else she would risk losing her family and friends.

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