Gender swap Kirsty tells her story

Published on Tuesday 21 June 2011 06:00

http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/gender_swap_kirsty_tells_her_story_1_2781330

FORTY-eight-year-old Kirsty Cass has had come to terms with the fact that she has gender dysphoria, a feeling of belonging to the wrong gender. Obby reporter Laura Chase talks to her about her journey.

Kirsty was born a male, but was aware that something was not quite right early on in her childhood.

She explained: "I had started feeling different at the age of five or six. I preferred the company of other girls and I used to hang out with them. As I got older I got to that age where I should have taken a liking to girls, but I didn't get it, it just didn't interest me.