Becoming Sandie

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Becoming Sandie

11 August 2010
By Majella Reid

http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/Becoming-Sandie.6469368.jp

Sandie (not real name) is a woman in the making, literally. At 55 years of age, this Longford resident has made the brave move of addressing a condition that she has lived with all her life. It is a condition known as Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and it means that Sandie was born into a man's body.
"Back in the 1950s and 1960s in Ireland if you said you were different you would be locked away. I couldn't afford to be locked away because I knew deep down there was nothing wrong with me," explained Sandie.