Transsexual who had £10,000 surgery on NHS wants to become a man again - PHOTO+VIDEO

Chelsea Attonley, 30, who was born a boy and called Matthew, said she now finds being a woman 'exhausting', is tired of putting on make-up and wearing heels, and now accepts that she should always have stayed a man. Chelsea said she had struggled with her identity while growing up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and as a child she would dress up in women's clothes.In her twenties she became a drag queen known as Miss Malibu, drawing on glamour model Katie Price's look for inspiration.An initial bid for a sex change to become a woman was turned down by a doctor, sending Chelsea into a spiral of depression, she said.  But then the former drag queen, who copied Jordan's style by wearing a blonde wig, mini skirts and stilettos, had a chance meeting with her idol in a nightclub in 2007.The glamour model told her to 'go for it' and her words inspired Chelsea to return to her GP and push once again for the gender reassignment surgery, costing £10,000.But now, seven years after surgery to become a woman, Chelsea wants to go back to being a man - and wants the taxpayer to foot the bill.Chelsea, who lives on welfare benefits, told a magazine yesterday she finds dressing and acting as a girl 'exhausting' and feels she has never been fully accepted as a real woman.She is aiming to have a breast reduction on the NHS and painful gender reassignment surgery to give her back a penis at a total cost of £14,000.Chelsea, now living in London, said: 'I have always longed to be a woman, but no amount of surgery can give me an actual female body and I feel like I am living a lie.'It is exhausting putting on make-up and wearing heels all the time. Even then I don't feel I look like a proper woman.'I suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of the hormones too.'I have realised it would be easier to stop fighting the way I look naturally and accept that I was born a man physically.'Chelsea, who spoke on ITV's This Morning earlier this year about Katie Price's encouragement, says she does not feel guilty about asking the taxpayer to pay for her reversion.'Now I have decided I want to live as Matthew, I am desperate to have my FF-cup boobs removed,' she said.'I can't afford to have them done privately, so I am hoping to have the op on the NHS.'I can't work at the moment because I am too upset after what I have been through.'I am considering having penis reconstruction too. I don't feel bad about the NHS paying for the surgery as I don't consider it a choice.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az