Stephanie Hirst

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.

'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.

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.

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.