What's it really like to change gender?
Four of the subjects of Channel 4's 'My Transsexual Summer' talk to Anna Moore about life before, during and after the change
7:00AM GMT 06 Nov 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/8859867/Whats-it-really-like-to-change-gender.htmlLewis apologises if he's looking rough; he had a heavy night last night. Dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt, he's slightly hunched, a little awkward but affable, remarkable because he seems so unremarkable, so typical of his generation.
And, on the face of it, he is. An only child, now 22, living at home with his mother in St Helens,Merseyside, he's working part-time in a gallery while building up an art portfolio, impatient for life to start. 'I'm into so much,' he says. 'I love graphic design, illustration, animation. I'm also a qualified fitness instructor. I need to narrow it down!' Recently out of a short-term relationship, he shyly admits that he doesn't struggle with getting girlfriends . 'I'm just like any ordinary boy, really,' he says. And you'd have to agree – except for one crucial difference: Lewis started life as a girl.
