A man from the UK is claiming that over the past ten years, he has slowly been turning into a woman against his will and through forces that he has not helped along in any way, ie hormone therapy.  The man who is now in his sixties has said that he began to slowly change about ten years ago and take on more feminine characteristics that are only normally associated with women, who have high levels of the female hormone estrogen. 

So, either he has an extreme sudden onset lack of the  male hormone testosterone, or he has a severe imbalance which allows the female hormone estrogen to take over, because that is what would typically cause the types of symptoms he has been experiencing over the past ten years, which include a softening of the skin, a diminishment of facial hair, and the slow growth of breasts, which is a womanly physical piece as we all know. 

Apparently doctors initially thought he was secretly taking hormones to gain the feminine characteristics until he adamantly denied this and firmed his statement that he does not want to become a woman, that he firmly wants to remain a man and wants medical help to reverse this slow feminization of his body for unknown reasons.

Doctors apparently have never come up against such a strange ailment, so they naturally did not know how to help the man and initially offered him a sex change when they thought that was his goal.  We’ve seen men grow breasts before because of hormonal imbalances, and it is currently a very embarrassing problem for many men who try everything to get the “man boobs” to go away, but this man is experiencing much more than just “man boobs”, he’s actually becoming a woman in many other ways, outwardly, and to his and his family’s dismay. 

My thoughts are that doctors may try some sort of testosterone therapy on the poor guy, to try to get his male dominant characteristics to take over again, but there may be more variable at play here that they need to address before just giving him hormone therapy, or some underlying disease of ailment that needs to be treated that is indirectly causing the hormone anomalie.