Unofficial site regarding Angel Paris-Jordan
Articles
Due to the closing of this site and at the request of Angel, It is important to note that these articles although published to 'in her words' not portray an accurate account of her life.
Angel is, despite articles to the contrary, not a transexual and was born an intersexed child and had surgery early in life. She wishes this to be known and for this site to be shut down. It was only made as a tribute to her life
With her understanding These articles remain for archive only
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ANGEL ATTACKED AT CARLISLE CITY CENTRE BUS STATION
Local Newspaper, THE NEWS AND STAR:
Full page article and photo in Saturdays edition
This sad news, comes only days after Angel received yet more death threats via telephone from people claiming to know her and live locally in the city of Carlisle.
After appearing on ITV's This Morning, selling stories to the national press and doing other countless TV and radio appearances, Angel admits this was "bound to happen" in somehwere like Carlisle.
The incident took place at Carlisle City centre at 9.00pm this Tuesday nigth at a bus station with several witnesses present, including the driver of the bus Angel was attempting to board.
This is a breaking story and the police are obviously involved, Angel has since been interviewed by police and they are taking the matter very seriously. No arrests have yet been made.
"Good Spirits"
Angel has no serious physical injuries but it appears her clothing was ripped and that she was "spat" in the face several times as onlookers, tried to contain the situation. Angel is more in shock than anything.
Despite all this Angel remains a vibrant, confident, successful young woman who simply does not respond to ignorance of this nature.
ITVs THIS MORNING Interview "Britains youngest Transsexual"
Angel appears on ITVs THIS MORNING
Angel talked in depth of her troubles with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder which kept her in hospital for nearly 2 years. Pictured above, aged 17, Angel weighed just 6stone with a 5"10 frame, she was cachectic and emaciated.
She was born intersexed, that is to say with both genitals and had surgery performed at an early age.
(Above: Photo of Angel used during ITV broadcast)
ABOVE:Age 12 - 13, Angel was already legally female as a child and never used her male birth name. Her birth certificate was amended at 9 months. (Photo used during ITV broadcast)
Newspaper Articles regarding Angel Paris-Jordan
- Angel given sex change at seventeen
Published on 24/01/2006 NEWS AND STAR
By Anna Richardson
A FORMER Carlisle College student has been revealed as the youngest person in Britain to have a sex change.
Angel Paris-Jordan started life as Cumbrian lad Oliver Wheadon but had the operation when she was just 17.
Angel, now 21, says she had always known she was trapped in the wrong body, leading her to slash her arms and fall prey to an eating disorder.
She also claims she was severely bullied at Nelson Thomlinson School in Wigton, where she was a pupil.
In an interview with the News of the World on Sunday, Angel described her years of torment.
She said: “Everyone tore the hell out of me. A teacher even called me a ‘he/she’ in front of pupils. I’d cry my eyes out.”
Angel first began taking female hormones aged just nine, when she began secretly using her mother’s HRT pills.
But in her teens she became severely depressed, leading to anorexia and self-harm.
Doctors realised she needed serious help after she was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in 1999.
She was diagnosed with long-standing gender dysphoria, and in 2002 the NHS agreed to pay for surgery.
Despite the shock, parents Susan and George supported her all the way and are proud of their daughter.
Susan, a carer, said: “I never thought twice about giving my consent for the sex-change operation. I thought if it was going to happen then the sooner the better for my child’s mental stability.”
Angel, who has a boyfriend, Martin, a 35-year-old Post Office driver, pulled out of her Carlisle College access course in October.
Opinion: Page 12
Good luck for a new life, Angel
Published on 24/01/2006 NEWS AND STAR
Whatever problems life may throw at us, being trapped in the wrong body is unlikely to be among them.
Angel Paris-Jordan spent the first 17 years of her life in this unthinkable situation.
Until the age of 17 Angel was Oliver Wheadon, a boy who grew up in Wigton with the feeling that he was really a girl.
He was bullied at school, suffered depression and anorexia and was sectioned seven years ago after harming himself.
Oliver’s parents were hugely supportive. They contacted a gender psychiatrist and then a surgeon, who gave the go-ahead for the sex-swap after Angel, as she was known by then, proved she could live as a woman for 18 months.
The operation took place four years ago and now Angel is studying at Carlisle College and has a boyfriend. She is thought to be the youngest transsexual in Britain.
For all its plus points, Cumbria is not renowned as a place which is tolerant of sexual minorities.
Angel faced horrendous abuse during her school days, merely for living her life as she wanted to.
The fact that she has emerged as a confident young woman is a tribute to her
As she says: “I had been trapped in the wrong skin since birth. Now I can be the woman I always wanted to be.”
Angel, you look great!
Published on 25/01/2006 NEWS AND STAR
YOUNG Wigton transsexual Angel Paris-Jordan opened her heart to a national newspaper about her transformation from Oliver Wheadon.
While her story in the News of the World was fascinating, I was more transfixed by Angel’s glamorous looks. Most natural-born women would kill for those cheek bones. And what a svelte figure.
Perhaps I can use the excuse that I am a goddess trapped in a frump’s body.
UNHAPPY BOY TO AN ANGEL (Cover Story))
By Hazel Mollison NEWS AND STAR
A CARLISLE College student who became the youngest person in Britain to have a sex change has said she had always known she was a girl.
Angel Paris-Jordan, who was just 17 when she had the operation, appeared on ITV’s This Morning programme yesterday.
But the Wigton girl, now aged 21, said the publicity is taking its toll on her private life. She has reported death threats to police, and says she is afraid to walk around Carlisle city centre alone.
Angel, refused to confirm that she was born Oliver Wheadon, told the News & Star:
“I’ve felt I was a girl for as long as I can remember. I was brought up as a girl. I was called ‘she’ at primary school.
She started taking her mum’s HRT pills aged nine, and was prescribed oestrogen pills by doctors when she was 14.
She said her parents have always been supportive.
She said: “I was never a Cumbrian lad. I was always known as Angel and I changed my name when I was 13.”
But she claims problems began when she started at Nelson Thomlinson School in Wigton.
She said: “I got tortured at school. I wasn’t allowed to use the boys’ toilets or the girls’ so I had to use the staff one.
“I was sexually assaulted on two occasions. I was bullied by everybody.”
She said she was physically assaulted by fellow pupils on a regular basis.
She said: “Eventually I couldn’t go to school any more. I was harming myself, slitting my wrists.”
But Angel told millions of This Morning TV viewers yesterday how she got 11 GCSEs including 10 A*s despite skipping school because of bullying.
Angel became anorexic, and after she took an overdose of pain killers aged 14 she was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She said: “Because I did not want to develop as a man I starved myself.
“I was in and out of hospital for a year and a half.”
During this time she began gender reassignment surgery, and had the final operation at 14.
On Sunday night she received 25 abusive phone calls after her story appeared in the News of the World.
“They are threatening violence and gang rape,” she said.
She added: “My family have been hounded. I’m afraid to walk around the town centre on my own any more.”
Angel is taking an access course at Carlisle College and hopes to read forensic psychology at university.
Her boyfriend, Martin, 35, is a Post Office driver. Viewers on yesterday’s This Morning heard how he had not known about Angel’s past until recently.
Published on 30/01/2006 THE REIVER
REIVER was saddened but not totally surprised to hear that Angel Paris Jordan has been a target of abuse.
Angel is the young lady from Wigton who is thought to be the youngest person in Britain to have undergone a sex change.
On the evening her story appeared in the News of the World last week she apparently received 25 abusive phone calls.
I know the telly isn’t great on Sunday nights, but do these people really have nothing better to do?
Saying that you’ve had a sex change was always likely to antagonise some people in Cumbria, bearing in mind this is a place where men are accused of being effeminate for wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt on a sub-zero night.
But Angel Paris Jordan has nothing to apologise for, even if her name does sound as though she was christened by David and Victoria Beckham.
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"Sex change Angel" attacked
Published on 11/02/2006 By Phil Coleman
A WIGTON student who became the youngest person in Britain to have a sex change has told how she was viciously attacked at Carlisle’s Lowther Street bus station.
Cumbria police are investigating the unprovoked assault on 21-year-old Angel Paris Jordan, whose story has been told in national newspapers and on TV.
Angel described how the young woman turned on her as she waited for a bus at 9pm on Tuesday.
The woman yelled abuse and spat at her while trying to scratch and punch Angel, who was with her boyfriend Martin.
Helped by passers-by, Martin shielded her from the onslaught, said Angel.
She said: “Martin walked me to the bus station when a nice lady came up to me and asked me if I was the girl who had been on TV.
“She said some very positive things to me and shook hands with me.
“The girl who attacked me must have overheard what she had said, because she came at me out of nowhere. Martin tried to get her off me – she was kicking and screaming and trying to punch me. Her breath smelt of vodka. It was really embarrassing.
“She was saying horrible things and said I wasn’t a real woman.”
Angel believes the woman was motivated by “jealousy or prejudice”.
“Since I went into the newspapers, I’ve been getting around 30 calls a day from people I don’t know. Some just hang up. I’ve also had some death threats.
“Last week I had a seizure which the doctor said was probably due to stress, and I’m on anti-depressants.”
Despite the bigotry she has encountered, Angel said she is determined not to be driven away from Carlisle, although one day she hopes to start a modelling career in London.
“I’m a strong person,” she said.
“What people don’t know is that there were biological grounds for me having the operation at 17. They wouldn’t have done it otherwise.
“But I do get a lot of people who I don’t know coming up to me and being really nice.”
A spokesman for Cumbria police said: “We have had a complaint about an assault at the bus station in Carlisle and we are investigating.”
Angel Paris-Jordan: NEWS OF THE WORLD ARTICLE
REAL LIFE EXCLUSIVE:
Britain's youngest ever transsexual tells how NHS ended years of
torment
SEX OP TURNED ME INTO GIRL AT JUST 17
By Gemma Calvert
A GLAMOROUS college student today reveals how she became the
youngest transsexual in Britain.
Angel Paris-Jordan was just 17 when she was granted a sex-change op
on the NHS.
She tells the News of the World how her loving parents helped her in
her battle to convince doctors she was a girl trapped in the body of
a schoolboy.
And she lifts the lid on how she even tried to change sex herself as
a NINE-YEAR-OLD—by secretly taking her mum Susan's HRT pills.
"Some people might frown about how young I was when I had it done—
but as far as I'm concerned it was 17 years too late," says Angel,
now 21, who started life as Oliver Wheadon.
"I had been trapped in the wrong skin since birth. Now I can be the
woman I always wanted to be."
But only after years of torment. As a young boy Angel was BULLIED at
secondary school for wearing girl's clothes and SECTIONED under the
Mental Health Act at just 14 after self-harming, slashing her arms
and developing anorexia.
Even as a primary school pupil she knew she didn't want to be
Oliver.
"I called myself Olive. I'd dress up in Mum's clothes at home and
wear leggings to school," she says.
Her mum Susan, 59—a carer for cerebral palsy sufferers—says: "Oliver
was always a mammy's boy.
Angel's fantasy world was to be smashed by her primary school head
when she was nine.
He told me, `Stop playing around. You're a boy, not a cissy'," she
says. "I went from happy to sad in a flash. I realised I was trapped
in a body I hated."
So little Oliver decided to try to change sex himself. Angel
explains: "I knew my mum had these pills that she once told me were
specially for women. I began sneaking them." They were hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) tablets to combat the menopause.
"When I was 11 I learned about other pills that reduce testosterone.
I bought them on the internet using my mum's credit card," says
Angel.
"I often necked back ten a day because I thought the thing between
my legs would drop off. Instead it shrank—but my breasts got
bigger."
Angel's feminine body led to severe bullying at her school, The
Nelson Thomlinson in Wigton, Cumbria.
"Everyone tore the hell out of me. A teacher even called me
a `he/she' in front of pupils. I'd cry my eyes out."
Angel plummeted into depression, became anorexic in a bid to stunt
her body growth, and began self-harming.
In June 1999 she was sectioned. Then mum Susan and company director
dad George, 57, stepped in to help their despairing child. Susan
says: "It hit me like a bullet when I found out Oliver wanted to be
a girl but looking back it all fits into place.
"I never thought twice about giving my consent for the sex-change
operation. But it was the sooner the better for my child's mental
stability. It was hard saying goodbye to Oliver though."
In June 1999 Susan contacted London-based gender psychiatrist
Russell Reid who diagnosed Oliver with gender dysphoria and
prescribed hormone therapy.
Then urological surgeon Timothy Terry saw Oliver at Leicester's
Nuffield Hospital and gave the go-ahead for the sex-swap after Angel
proved she could live as a woman for 18 months.
Mr Terry told us last night: "Angel is the youngest transsexual I've
operated on and probably the youngest ever in the country.
"Although she was quite young she fitted all the criteria so I never
had any second thoughts. The recommendations from psychiatrists were
very strong."W
The family's local Primary Care Trust agreed to pay for the £7,290
operation and on February 20, 2002 Angel was admitted to the
Nuffield for surgery. Angel says: "I remember my first walk outside
as a woman. I felt like the final piece of the jigsaw had been
fitted."
Angel is now studying English and psychology at Carlisle College.
She has a boyfriend, Post Office driver Martin, 35, who had no idea
she was a transsexual when he met her.
"It was a shock when she told me but there's nothing manly about her
at all," said Martin. "Angel is all woman."
Which is just the way she feels. "What was so negative is now so
positive," she says.
"It's amazing how a life can turn around sodramatically."
ANGEL BARES ALL FOR THE SUNDAY SPORT
Angel Paris-Jordan, 21 appeared in last weeks issue of THE SUNDAY SPORT, page 19. The photo, and article has sparked outrage in her local town, Carlisle.
"No regrets"
Although not totally happy with the "treatment" the article received, Angel has no regrets. "I'm an Angel, I don't do regrets" she said, to a close friend. "This makes me look cheap, and that is something I am not"
OTHER NEWS ARCHIVE
Interview with BBC Radio Cumbria aired Monday
Angel Paris-Jordan Talks To BBC RADIO CUMBRIA
Angel recorded an in depth interview with BBC Radio Cumbria's anchor presenter Val Armstrong. The interview was aired Monday 6th February at 11.00am on the morning show.
Angel talked in depth for around 18minutes in what was for the most part a laid back, relaxed interview. Top of the list was of questions was how Angel felt in response to recently reported death threats. Angel lamented on what has been a media blitz of a month, but said she had "no regrets"
"Val was so sweet, it was a pleasure"
After the interview aired, Val reported an influx of positive feedback through the phone lines. Many found it inspirational and angelparisjordan.cjb.net has received an influx of new visitors.
The interview, initially planned to air live last Tuesday had been cancelled due to ill health (see NewsReviewForum).
To Post feedback regarding the interview or all other things Angel, or to send a message to Angel, go to the NEWS REVIEW FORUM
SOURCE: www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria
ANGEL SPEAKS TO BBC RADIO5LIVE
Angel spoke with Steven Nolan on Radio 5Live on Sunday 29th at 11.00pm 909 - 693am
Although unhappy with his "ignorant" comments, Angel has no regrets and the shows producers hailed the interview a success. Angel reached a new audience, one that doesn't read tabloids or watch daytime TV.
A subsequent phone-in proved the nations support was with Angel, even though in Angel's words, "Steven Nolan SUCKS"
ANGEL REVEALS ALL IN THE NEWS OF THE WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Angel Paris-Jordan revealed all in a 2-page spread exclusive on Sunday 22nd January. The article has since sparked a national media blitz, death threats and truly launched Angel into the limelight.
, www.newsoftheworld.com
Other articles can be found in PICKME UP and B magazine, Bliss and SUGAR.
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