Lydia Foy speaks of difficulty growing up with trans gender syndrome in Ireland
Won landmark High Court Ruling in Ireland to have named changed on birth certificate
By MOLLY MULDOON
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Thursday, July 14, 2011, 7:50 AM
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Lydia-Foy-speaks-of-difficulty-growing-up-with-trans-gender-syndrome-in-Ireland-125520858.htmlWhen Lydia Foy was born in 1947, her birth was registered as male, but from an early age she knew that all was not right: "I knew I wasn't to be allowed be myself and I couldn't tell anyone basically," she reflected in a RTE documentary.
Attending boarding school, university and qualifying as a dentist, for over four decades she struggled to come to terms with her transgender syndrome.
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Documentary on One
My Name is Lydia Foy
When Lydia Foy was born in 1947 a baby boy was registered. When she finally realised her true identity - as a woman - she discovered there was still something missing. A birth certificate.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/radio-documentary-my-name-is-lydia-foy-transgender-transsexual.htmlThis documentary tells of Lydia Foy's life in smalltown Ireland through the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s, as a person with transgender sydrome, struggling through boarding school and then trying to conform by qualifying and working as a denist, and by marrying and having a family.
It took over 40 years for her to feel content with who she was, but since having gender realignment surgery in the early 1990s, Lydia has lived as a woman - in her hometown of Athy.
