Squaddie's battle for a sex change operation

EXCLUSIVE by Sarah Arnold and Katie Evans 19/09/2010

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/19/squaddie-s-battle-for-a-sex-change-operation-115875-22571535/

Stuart, who is having a sex-change and now calls himself Sophie, says: "As paratroopers hurl themselves 800ft into the abyss they mentally say '1,000, 2,000, 3,000, check canopy!'

"I did that exactly when I went out dressed as a woman. I had to brace myself before stepping outside my front door but once there my fears evaporated. It felt so right."

Stuart, 32, is ­unrecognisable as the muscular lance corporal who proudly wore his red beret serving in Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone.