
Trans girl, 12, is desperate to start hormone treatment
Zoey Villa, 12, from New York, started transitioning two year ago with the full support of her mother Sally Homer, 44. She is now desperate to start hormone therapy to look like other teenage girls,
- Zoey Villa, 12, from New York, wants to start oestrogen to develop as teen girl
- She voiced her wish to transition to her mother Sally, 44, when she was just ten
- Supportive mother Sally Homer said 'great kid' Zoey makes her 'incredibly proud'
Zoey Villa, 12, admitted to her mother, Sally Homer, 44, from New York, that she wanted to be a girl two years ago when the mother-of-three noticed she was using a female avatar while playing on her Xbox.
Within weeks of coming out to her mother, and being met with full acceptance, Zoey became more confident wearing dresses and feminine clothes, and just three months later decided to change her name and started using female pronouns.
But now after starting hormone blockers to pause her puberty last year, the single mother says her youngest daughter wants to start oestrogen and develop breasts like her female peers.
Even though she won't be able to take said hormones until she is 14, Zoey can count on the support of Sally and her boyfriend, while her father is not in her life at all after her parents split up when she was younger.
Sally, from New York, said: 'She can't wait to start hormones and begin her journey to become the woman she feels she is meant to be.
'She wants breasts and for her body to develop just like any other teenager her age.
'She definitely wants bottom surgery too, but that won't even be a consideration until she is at least 18. At the moment we are taking each thing one step at a time, and her doctor won't allow her to start female hormones until she's 14.
'I think gender identity is a spectrum and when it comes to my daughter, she is so unwavering in who she is and wants to be, she's already saying "just cut it off".'
After coming out to her mother aged 11, Zoey's confidence soared when Sally helped to style her hair and started revamping her wardrobe to express her femininity.
But despite immediately accepting her daughter's wishes, artist Sally admitted she was stunned by the revelation and never saw it coming.
She said: 'I was completely surprised, I did not see it coming at all.
'There were little signs like when she was two she put on a pair of my heels and started walking around, but what child doesn't do that?