Tyler Reks Opens Up About Gender Transition

It was recently revealed that former WWE star Tyler Reks will be transitioning from male to female. Reks (birth name Gabe Tuft) has revealed that she now identifies as a woman, and has changed her name to Gabbi.

Tuft has opened up about her story, noting that it was her wife, Pricilla, who encouraged her to be genuine to herself. Speaking to Wrestling Inc, Tuft explained that Pricilla found it difficult watching someone she loved hide who they truly were from the world.

Her reassurance wasn’t taken on board immediately, however. Tuft revealed that she was in denial for a long time before she realised that “Gabbi” wasn’t just a phase.

Here is the full quote:

“This was probably August-ish last year in 2020, Priscilla (her wife) had come to me. She’d seen me becoming very depressed, and over the summer, I had been getting dressed up a lot as Gabbi in the evenings when my daughter would go to sleep. And one day Priscilla came to me, and she was like, ‘Hey babe, I know this is you, but I’m having a really difficult time in the day time because I still see you dressed up as a woman at night.’ And I took that immediately.”

“Being a kind of an extremist, I said, ‘Okay, no problem. Gabbi’s gone. Don’t worry about it,’ and she was like, ‘No, no, that’s not what I mean.’ I’m like, ‘No, no, this is stupid. This is dumb. This is some dumb thing I’m going through. It’s a phase,’ and so I just basically killed it off, but it became very very painful, extremely painful to the point where — I’ve come out telling everybody that I did steroids for years.”

“And my thing was as soon as Priscilla said that, I ran to the bathroom, and I grabbed my gear and I shot up a bunch of Test (testosterone) and Tren (trenbolone) right away to go the most opposite way that I could from Gabbi. And I remember loading the syringe and pushing the syringe into my shoulder, and as I did, I just felt like I was killing Gabbi. And I could just feel the light going out, and it was painful, but I thought I was over it.”

Tuft also revealed that although thoughts about transitioning had become more prominent in recent years, Tuft first started to reassess her gender during childhood. Noting that she’s had to hide who she was from the age of 10, Tuft said:

“My parents are both fantastic. They did nothing wrong, but she goes, ‘Oh sweetie, girls are the ones that get pregnant. Boys don’t.’ Oh, okay. And then at 10-ish, around then until I was 14, when my parents and my brother were out of the house, I would sneak into my mom’s closet and try on her clothes. And it was this really secret thing I did. I never wanted to get caught because I didn’t want to get in trouble, and at that point in school, in society, boys that wear girl clothes or boys that do girl things, they get beat up.

“They get called names, and so I battled with that. In my teenage years, I let it go, but it was always there in the back of my head going, ‘I wonder what it’s like to have breasts. I wonder what it’s like to be on the other side of things,’ and I hid it really well most of my life, but it came back about three years ago in full force.”

Known as Tyler Reks, she signed for WWE in 2008, spending 4 years on various brands before being released in 2012.

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