Sascha registered as transgender in Japan and nearly transitioned to a woman as he 'lost it completely' and thought he was a female trapped in a male's body.
- Jan 13, 2024
AceShowbiz - David Bailey's son Sascha was listed as transgender while living in Japan. The 29-year-old art curator - who is the famed photographer's youngest child from his marriage to fourth wife Catherine Dyer - was living in Tokyo following the end of his 10-year marriage to Mimi Nishikawa when he started thinking about becoming a woman but he didn't move forward with the process and is no longer considering changing his gender.
"I ended up going trans before I left Japan. Before I left, I lost it completely and I thought that I wanted to be female. I am actually officially transgender, according to the Japanese government. I thought I had a second personality called 'Sue' that was female. 'She' [Sue] protected me," he told the Daily Mail newspaper's Eden Confidential column.
He went on to reveal he was given hormones by his doctor, but he didn't ever start taking them. Sascha added, "I didn't do anything, not even hormones. But I was prescribed them, I still have the doctor's notes and the [prescription] box."
Sascha split from lawyer Mimi in 2022 after a decade of marriage and is now dating Lucy Brown, who he met online prior to leaving Japan.
His 86-year-old father has been out of the spotlight recently after revealing he has been diagnosed with vascular dementia. Bailey went public with his condition in 2021 and revealed he had bFOTO:
een given news of the life-limiting condition from doctors three years earlier.
The snapper told The Times newspaper, "I've got vascular dementia. I was diagnosed about three years ago. It's a ... bore but it's just one of those things. In some ways it's good, I can see a film and forget it, then enjoy it again two years later. And it doesn't seem to affect my work at all."
Vascular dementia causes symptoms including confusion, slow thinking and changes in mood or behaviour, and Bailey explained it has affected his memory as he struggles to remember anything more than the last three months. Bailey added to the publication, "You make the most of every day, because there might not be a tomorrow."
