SAS Who Dares Wins firefighter floors directing staff by revealing he used to be a woman
dailystar.co.ukSAS: Who Dares Wins stuns his bosses by revealing he was born a woman.Nic Brennan, 40, is among the 20 recruits facing the gruelling special forces training course on the Channel 4 show.However, none of the directing staff or his team mates knew about his past when he signed up.And it took a few days before he opened up about his struggles with gender dysphoria and how he hit rock bottom wishing he had been "born correctly".The shaved headed contestant said: "From a very young age I felt different.
I felt like a boy trapped in the wrong body and that became progressively worse once I started puberty."It was a fear of growing up with two sisters and knowing what was ahead.
I remember being as young as five years old and I’d beat my chest every night hoping and praying I’d never wake up with breasts."It took Nic from Cheshire many years of feeling isolated and angry to discover that he was suffering from the condtion called gender dysphoria.But in 2011, he went ahead with gender reassignment surgery and is now living as a man.He moved from the fire service at Stockton Heath to a new station in Runcorn where he claims all the crew are "like family" to him.He added: "Eventually I was able to do something about it.
I wish I could have done something about it a lot sooner or even better been born correctly."I try and make the best of the hand I’ve been dealt.
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