Conservative Lawmaker Jamie Wallis Comes Out as Trans in Personal Post
came out as transgender in a statement on Twitter.“I’m trans. Or to be more accurate, I want to be,” wrote Wallis. “I’ve been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and I’ve felt this way since I was a very young child.
I had no intention of ever sharing this with you. I always imagined I would leave politics well before I ever said this out loud.”Wallis, who said he will continue to use he/him pronouns, shared that he was almost outed in April 2020. “There was a close call in April 2020 when someone blackmailed me, outed me to my father, and sent photographs to other family members.
He wanted £50,000 to keep quiet. The police were so supportive, so understanding and on this occasion the system worked. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 2yrs and 9mnths in prison,” Wallis revealed.Wallis said that following this incident, he was able to “get on with things and move on,” thinking that he would be able to continue to be an MP while hiding his gender identity, as difficult as that would be. “I arrogantly assumed I was up for it.
Well, I’m not,” he shared.Wallis said the breaking point for him followed a sexual assault in September at the hands of someone he met online. “A few months back, in September, I ‘hooked up’ with someone who I met online and when I chose to say ‘no’ on the basis that he wouldn’t wear a condom he chose to rape me,” Wallis wrote.“I have not been myself since this incident and I don’t think I will ever recover.
