I became a woman at 70, says Sheffield ex miner
Published Date: 14 September 2009
By Richard Blackledge
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news2/I-became-a-woman-at.5643826.jp (http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news2/I-became-a-woman-at.5643826.jp)
RACHEL Fleetwood is 75 years old, lives in a Sheffield nursing home - and is most likely Britain's oldest transsexual.
Rachel was in fact born Roy Colton in Brightside, Sheffield, in 1934 - but made the life-changing decision to change from being a man to a woman aged 70, in 2004.