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Jackie is stunning and we're in love..
I don't care she used to be Jack
Gender op girl finds romance

By JENNA SLOAN
Published: 15 hrs ago

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4794173/Youngest-gender-op-girl-is-loved-up-on-Valentines-Day.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4794173/Youngest-gender-op-girl-is-loved-up-on-Valentines-Day.html)

TENDERLY holding hands and smiling contentedly, Jackie Green and her boyfriend Kyle Mear look like any other young couple madly in love on Valentine's Day.

However, their three-year relationship has one major difference — because Jackie, 19, was born Jack.

She had full gender reassignment surgery on her 16th birthday, making her the youngest person in the country to undergo the procedure.

Jackie has since gone on to reach the semi-finals of Miss England and model around the world. Proud Kyle, 20, beams: "Jackie's stunning, she's my best friend, I'm really proud of her and we love each other. That's all we need."

And his girlfriend insists: "I see myself as just a normal, teenage girl with a boyfriend like anyone else. My past isn't really a big deal for us."

It would be a good story...if it didn't fit trans stereotypes almost perfectly!

I have yet to see a trans story about someone who is genderqueer or androgynous and didn't know that they were until they were in their 20's. I'm almost tempted to start sending in letters to newspapers when they start doing this crap; they need to know that the impact they are making on the public is very damaging to the full spectrum of trans people's experiences.

Ticks me right off...harrumph. (Lol)

Agreed Sky Blue. But it is a good story when you look past the Sun.

But I can't really decide which of them is the more gorgeous.

Quote from: spacial on February 14, 2013, 11:03:11 AM
Agreed Sky Blue. But it is a good story when you look past the Sun.

But I can't really decide which of them is the more gorgeous.

I do think that it's a good story in the respect that its about how love overcame judgement and hatred. This story is also shows a sort of redeeming quality in humanity...arg though it still ticks me off that they had to overplay the "Transexual knew she was a girl at the age of 4". Yes, I just used "Transexual" as a noun just to emphasize how certain stories try to "other" us into another gender altogether.

Other than that...it was a pretty decent story.

And you misspelled it both times!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 14, 2013, 11:25:29 AM
And you misspelled it both times!

:P

I checked it out and "Transsexual" can actually be spelt as "Transexual". My source is Merriam-Webster online. All it says is that "Transexual" is a variant spelling or "Transsexual".

If that is what you are referring to...

I've never seen it with one S, it kinda leaves "exual" as a word.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 14, 2013, 11:38:31 AM
I've never seen it with one S, it kinda leaves "exual" as a word.

I was thinking the same thing myself :)

They're trying to shortchange the community!

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 14, 2013, 11:38:31 AM
I've never seen it with one S, it kinda leaves "exual" as a word.

When said with a Cockney accent?  (thinking of Elisa in "My Fair Lady")

It's a terrible word anyway.

But from the Sun, anything that is one step past a gang fight, has to be an improvement.

I think their story is a good one; but why in the sun? That paper is no better then the National Enquirer.

What's the difference between the Sun and the Beano?Fourpence!It's not fit for the cat to piss on,good story compared to the usual BS in that rag