David Bailey’s son Sascha has revealed the photographer’s thoughts on his battle with gender identity.
In 2022, the former model found himself immersed in the unusual sub culture, which is made up of men who believe their life will be easier if they transition into women.
A private doctor then confirmed he was transgender and wrote him a prescription for female hormones.
Yet ahead of undergoing life-changing gender affirmation surgery Sascha was brought back from the brink with words of encouragement from his father and his girlfriend Lucy Brown, with whom he’s expecting his first child.
Three years on, Sascha explained that his gender dysphoria hasn’t affected his relationship with his father.
‘He just caused me a silly b***er,’ Sascha told . ‘He’s from that generation where it’s what you do, but he doesn’t judge me for it. He sees my appearances on TV and stuff and he likes it. He’s proud of me.’
David Bailey’s son Sascha revealed the photographer’s surprising reaction when he announced he was transgender during a candid chat with
Now, as he prepares to become a father himself, Sascha is braced for his unborn child perhaps one day broaching the subject of gender dysphoria themselves.
‘I’d be very against it, obviously,’ Sascha mused. ‘You can’t get a tattoo. You can’t change your gender. It’s really as simple as that.
‘If you give someone one little piece of control, one little thing they can do, they will gravitate towards that little bit of control.
‘Kids have no control over their life. So we have to look after them, we make sure that they don’t make bad decisions.
‘If you allow them to have this one avenue, a lot of them will take it just because it’s a bit of control.’
Claiming there is not enough research to suggest when a child knows for sure if they identify as transgender, he went on: ‘It’s a soft science and it’s psychology. It’s based on self-reporting – we can only go down to individual experience.
‘So we can talk about what’s objective. And the objective facts are the the hormone treatments, whether they’re puberty blockers or hormone treatment, is bad for you.
‘The surgeries are objectively bad for you. They may be affirming for some people, but they are still bad for you.
‘We’ve got to look at the objective factors and that to me that is that kids cannot make decisions for themselves.
‘I cannot in a million years understand why anyone would think that an under 18 year old can make these decisions. It doesn’t make sense.’
‘He just caused me a silly b***er,’ Sascha said of his dad’s reatction. ‘He’s from that generation where it’s what you do, but he doesn’t judge me for it’ (pictured in 2018)
For now, Sascha’s main concern is the impending birth of his first child with girlfriend Lucy, 32, who he met after the collapse of his 10-year marriage to lawyer Mimi Nishikawa, 40.
He has previously credited Lucy with ‘saving his life’ not just in helping him amid his divorce but with his feelings of gender dysphoria.
There will not, he laughed, be a gender reveal party for their unborn child but he has no preference either way.
The couple have already picked out names, Wolfgang for a boy and Ava for a girl.
Lucy, who previously worked as Tommy Robinson’s assistant, has the seal of approval from Sascha’s father David and as a budding photographer has even been picking up a few tips.
David is pleased for the couple.
‘He’s happy that there will be another moment for family,’ Sascha shares. ‘He likes my girlfriend, so that’s good. He wasn’t so much of a fan of the last one!’
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For now, Sascha’s main concern is the impending birth of his first child with girlfriend Lucy Brown, 32, the former assistant to Tommy Robinson (pictured in 2023)