A transgender teen who was bullied so much at school that she was forced to drop out has transformed into a glamorous woman and now dreams of becoming a model.
Brandon Morrison, 17, from California, was punched in the stomach and trampled on at school to the point where she slipped into depression.
But since transforming into Brittney Kade, her confidence has sky-rocketed and she now hopes to become a model.
Brittney knew from a very young age that she was very different from her friends who were boys.
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Speaking to MailOnline, she said: ‘I first realised I was born in the wrong body when I was probably three or four years old, when I would play with normal toys that girls would and not normal boy toys.
‘I was suppressing all of my feelings of just wanting to be myself.’
Her mum, Staci Morrison, 33, said that when Brittney was younger, she was ‘just a depressed kind of sad child and it would really hurt me’.
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Things turned worse when Brittney started getting bullied at school and she was forced to drop out.
Brittneysaid: ‘It was just really hard for me and I was miserable. I wanted to take a step back and find out who I was myself. I was pretty quiet and numb and I didn’t like who I was.’
When she turned 14, she told her mum and step dad that she was transgender and with their support, she started taking hormones a year later.
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Today, Brittney has a lot more confidence and looks remarkably different from the boy she once was.
She said: ‘The way I feel about my body today is a whole different change. I am a lot more confident and I think that shows on the outside too.’
Yet the 17-year-old did say that being transgender has made it difficult to find someone special.
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Brittney had been dating a boy for two years but it broke off because his family struggled to accept who she was.
She said: ‘Ibelieve there is someone out there for everyone and I hope that I can find someone who will just love me as I am.
‘It’s better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you aren’t.’
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