title: WATCH: 12-YR OLD BOY’S MOTHER Helps Him Transition To A “Female”…2 Years Later, He Changes His Mind
text: In an upcoming episode of the Australian  60 Minutes,  a 12-year-old transgender boy details how he began the transition to a become a girl, only to change his mind two years later.As a young child, Patrick Mitchell had always wanted to be a girl, the Independent reported.  You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say,  I d kill to be like that,'  Mitchell told interviewers.After speaking with doctors, Mitchell was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and began taking estrogen hormones in anticipation of a full transition. Mitchell grew out his hair and the treatment caused the prepubescent boy to grow a pair of breasts.gen der dys pho ri a the condition of feeling one s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one s biological sex.When teachers began to call him a girl in class, however, Mitchell began to question if he made the correct decision.  I began to realize I was actually comfortable in my body. Every day I just felt better,  he said.Mitchell s mother recounted his change of heart. He looked me in the eye and said,  I m just not sure that I am a girl,'  she told  60 Minutes.  Mitchell has since stopped taking his estrogen treatment and plans to have surgery to remove the breast tissue.Some studies have indicated that at least a portion of children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria ultimately embrace the sex they were assigned at birth, New York Magazine reported. WFB