Doctors say a 45-minute epileptic seizure may have caused a transgender woman to revert back to being a man . A new psychiatric study has described how an unnamed Australian man , aged in his mid 30s , had believed he was really a woman since he was four-years-old . The patient received breast augmentations , hormonal treatment and facial surgery to appear more feminine in her mid-30s . But after suffering the seizure , the transgender woman radically changed her mind about her gender - and her psychiatrist said it may be because the fit triggered biological changes . Scroll down for video . The unnamed man received facial surgery so he could appear more feminine ( file photo ) . He did not have facial surgery . In a medical journal , psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson wrote : 'It may be that the prolonged seizure affected whatever biological structures serve to confer gender identity and personality structure ' ' A firm decision was soon made to revert to male identity , ' retired Wollongong psychiatrist Dr John Parkinson wrote in the latest edition of the medical journal Australasian Psychiatry . Dr Parkinson said the seizure may have changed the 'biological structures ' that gave the man his sense of gender . Do you know more ? daniel.piotrowski @ mailonline.com . The man had not had surgery to his genitals . However , he was out of money after spending so much money on breast enhancement surgery . ' A delighted mother came to the rescue and within six months the augmentation had been reversed , ' Dr Parkinson wrote in the journal . The epileptic fit caused further profound changes in the man 's personality . He stopped abusing drugs and alcohol and no longer showed signs of suffering Borderline personality disorder , the study said . The man had suffered a brain injury when he was younger but Dr Parkinson said that had 'affected neither personality nor gender identity . ' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article .
Australian man in his mid 30s believed he was a woman since he was four-years-old . He received breast implants and underwent hormonal treatment to become a woman . But after an epileptic seizure he became certain he was really a man . Score: 8