Grace Hyland: Transgender influencer and OnlyFans star calls out Channel 7 for implying she regrets transitioning

Grace Hyland: Transgender influencer and OnlyFans star calls out Channel 7 for implying she regrets transitioning

• Transgender OnlyFans star slams Channel 7 over picture 
• Used photo implied she ‘regretted’ transitioning, she said 

By Padraig Collins and Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia

Updated: 14:57 BST, 3 September 2023

A transgender influencer and OnlyFans star has claimed Channel 7 implied she regrets transitioning.

A photo of Grace Hyland is one of those featured in a promotional video for Sunday night’s Spotlight show investigating ‘thousands’ of young people who regret changing from male to female or female to male. 

The promo’s voiceover said ‘Children are being told they should change from boy-to-girl, or girl-to-boy, from as young as 12 years old’ as pictured of children before and after their transitions are displayed.

Ms Hyland, 20, used her TikTok account to slam Channel 7 for making it seem she now regretted changing gender.

‘I transitioned at 13 and I don’t regret it at all,’ adding that she’d had breast augmentation surgery two days earlier.

Grace Hyland (pictured before she transitioned to a girl) has slammed Channel 7 for using a photo of her in a video promoting a program on transgender regrets

‘Gender affirming healthcare in Australia needs more funding, it doesn’t need this negativity,’ she said.

‘And even though my face is in this, I don’t agree with it, I don’t stand for this story, I don’t stand for the sensationalism of this whole thing. Don’t get it twisted Channel 7.’

She wondered if her before and after photos were chosen by Spotlight because her father, Mat Stevenson, used to act in Channel 7 show Home and Away.

‘Is it because my dad was on Home and Away on Channel 7 back in the day? Is it because I’m a public figure? Is it because I’ve publicly defended child transitioning?’ she said.

‘I mean why would you choose my face? My photos? It makes no sense.’

Ms Hyland started documenting her male-to-female transition on social media since she began identifying as a girl at the age of 12. 

Stevenson, who became a household name when he starred as Adam Cameron on Home and Away, has been very supportive of her.

He discussed her transition on The Sunday Project in January 2021, and revealed how his friends reacted to learning of his child’s gender identity.

He said that while some of his friends were ‘pretty seamless’ and ‘got it’, others struggled and he asked them to simply ‘show some empathy’.

Ms Hyland said she knew she was meant to be female as early as the age of ‘four or five’.

She consulted doctors, psychologists and experts in the field for a year before commencing any physical treatment.

‘I came out at 12 and then I went through a gradual transition until I was 14, to grow my hair out, to get my name change sorted, to sort out my blockers,’ she said.

‘And then by the time I was 14, I was fully presenting as Grace to the public and at school.’

She said she would not be where she is today without her father’s support.

Ms Hyland (pictured) started documenting her male-to-female transition on social media since she began identifying as a girl at the age of 12

Grace Hyland (pictured right) said she would not be where she is today without her father Mat Stevenson’s (pictured left) support

Ms Hyland (pictured) announced last January that she was moving into the ‘exclusive content’ on OnlyFans

Stevenson also highlighted the suicide rate among transgender teenagers, saying he didn’t want his daughter ‘to become one of those statistics’.

Ms Hyland announced last January that she was moving into the ‘exclusive content’ on OnlyFans. 

‘As a trans woman I love embracing my femininity and the body that I fought so hard to have! Come and see what I’m all about!’ she said at the time. 

After Ms Hyland’s complaint, Channel 7 updated its promo and removed her photos.  

:

***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk