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Started by Shana A, January 15, 2012, 09:01:39 AM

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Shana A

January 15, 2012, 09:01:39 AM
Ladies and gentlemen
It's not easy being born the wrong gender. But you have options, as Joanna Kiernan discovers when she taps into Ireland's transgender community and meets boys who were girls and girls who were boys, including a Donegal sheep farmer, an Argentinian-Irish lesbian who pretends to her grandparents she's still male, and the former girl who can't wait to be a dad

Sunday January 15 2012

http://www.independent.ie/health/health-news/ladies-and-gentlemen-2989429.html

'I started living as Darrin when I was 16. I've been on hormones for the last year and a half." As I sit opposite Darrin Matthews, 21, in Dublin's Central Hotel one winter's evening, I make a poor attempt at swallowing my surprise.

For reasons that now seem ridiculous, I had thought I was meeting a young man who intended to change genders, rather than a young man who had previously been female. I admit the misunderstanding a little sheepishly.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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