Sex-change woman wins pension fight
* Press Association, Tuesday June 22 2010
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A married man who became a woman has won her battle to receive a pension from the age of 60.
Christopher Timbrell, born in 1941 , changed her name to Christine in 2000 after surgery to alter her gender.
In 2002 she applied to the Inland Revenue National Insurance Contributions Office for her state pension, which she asked to be backdated to her 60th birthday a year earlier but her new gender status was not recognised in law because she has not divorced her wife, Joy.