A Gender Variance Who's WhoWilliam Ross Ball was raised, one of four children in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Their alcoholic father killed himself when the child was eight, followed by the mother having a nervous breakdown two years later. The children were then raised in group and foster homes. Shelley later said: "I wanted to be a woman since I was a kid, as far back as I can remember". At 13 she was committed to a m
