Body of evidence: A special report into the lives of transsexuals
Published Date: 15 March 2009
By The Catherine Deveney interview
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/features/-Body-of-evidence-A.5071047.jpThe up trapped in the wrong gender causes hundreds of people to take their own lives. Surgery gives others a new start, but in many cases the price of happiness is still very high.
HE IS clearly a man. I say 'clearly' because when James Morton walks towards me in an Edinburgh hotel he is dressed like any young professional male, in a suit and tie, he has light beard growth on his face and myriad little signals he transmits suggest masculinity. Should I tell you that once he had breasts, a womb capable of bearing children, that in fact he was female, your eyes would tell your brain that this is a lie. You would feel the confusion that James has felt all his life. Growing up, when he looked in the mirror and saw a female body, he thought, 'Who is that?' For in both his conscious and unconscious mind, even in his dreams as he slept, he was male. "Waking up was just like... 'Oh my God, yes, of course. Back to the complicated mismatch that I have.'"
