Love triumphs across the line

[Natasha]

Love triumphs across the line

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/love-triumphs-across-the-line/2008/09/05/1220121526785.html
9/6/2008

Eric underwent a sex change operation six years ago, aged 61. After a lifetime of confusion about his sexuality, decades of cross-dressing, years of hormone treatment, all with Joan's knowledge, Eric grabbed his last chance to be true to himself. Living as a woman was a secret joy he had allowed himself to experience on occasional weekends away with Joan. It was the heart attack - intimations of mortality - that propelled him to come out to his community and friends as a female, assume the name of Erica, go under the knife, and be liberated from the prison of pretence.