Patricia Arquette admits uncertainty over sibling’s sex change

Patricia Arquette has revealed she found it difficult when her sibling Alexis revealed he was was having a sex change.

Alexis had long lived and worked as a transgender performer before making the full transition in 2005 and Medium star Patricia said recently that she found it hard to cope with Alexis’ decision: “I had all the questions at first: ‘Do you love yourself? Is it something that you want to change about the way you look?’ I get concerned when anybody I love wants to do any change to the way they look - where’s this coming from and why?…”

“Accepting as I am, I didn’t really understand and I can’t say I really do understand it. But I did feel a sadness. Like, there’s a loss. Am I going to lose my brother? I have memories of growing up - little faces we made, getting dressed up for Halloween.”

“I always imagined myself to be a very open-minded person. So when I was feeling a level of judgement… I really had to think about myself.”