Kim Petras said she somewhat regrets discussing her gender transition with the press during childhood, because privacy felt blurred. She also said she was unashamed at the time and viewed her situation as simply the way it was. She contrasted that earlier openness with a current climate in America that she described as filled with shame around sex and sexual education, including hostility toward trans kids. She expressed happiness that trans kids can transition, become grown-ups, and make choices that lead to happiness. She also responded to claims that she ruined her body and life by saying she underwent assessments with psychologists and doctors and that hormone treatment saved her life.
"I was 12 talking about it, which I kind of regret because privacy was really blurred, [but] I was really unashamed of talking about it because I was a kid and I was like, 'This is the way it is.'"
"Now that I'm in America, there's so much shame around sex, sexual education is such a taboo, and it's such a weird climate right now, especially about trans kids in particular. They're the enemy right now."
"In this political climate, I'm happy I can stand for [the idea that] trans kids can transition and then be a grown-up and happy and make [those] choices. I made the right choices that I'm proud of to this day,"
"But [at the same time] I have people saying I ruined my body and I ruined my life,"
"They don't know me at all. They don't know my history, that I went to so many psychologists and so many doctors and that it was a real thing that had an assessment and [they gave me] an answer [about] why I got to [get hormone treatment]. It saved my life and then there's people who are like, 'This saved your life, but you ruined everything.'"
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