Originally posted by Daily Mail

A man desperate to become a woman has shed a staggering 12 stone in her sex swap quest.
Keith Tonkin, who now goes by the Japanese name Hinoi, dropped from 21 stone to a svelte nine and is about to complete the sex swap she has always wanted.
The 29-year-old, who says she always felt different when she was a man, is awaiting the final stages of her £10,000 NHS operation, due to take place later in the year.




Speaking to The Sun, Hinoi said: 'I didn't act or think like other boys and that realisation meant I was miserable. I was binge eating to punish the body I hated so much.'
The IT specialist would stay in her room and gorge on eight fried eggs, eight pieces of toast and packets of crisps in the middle of the night because she was so miserable.



Realisation hit when her elder sister Sharon got married in 2006 and her other sister Pamela was a bridesmaid.
Hinoi said: 'I was so jealous of how they looked. I felt like an imposter in my suit, knowing I was living a lie.'
After her mother found Hinoi wearing a skirt in 2009, she finally plucked up the courage to visit a gender clinic and underwent a course of drugs to block testosterone.

As she began to change into the 'new her', Hinoi ditched her fattening diet and swapped the fried food for diet shakes and salads, which she combined with mile-long daily walks.
Within eighteen months, she became unrecognisable to anyone who had known her before and finally felt comfortable and confident in her body.
She added: 'I can get into glamorous skirts and dresses and now I have these hips I love to shake them on the dancefloor- it's where I'm at my happiest.'