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UK- Ipswich: Transsexual hate crime victim considered suicide

Started by SandraJane, July 04, 2012, 10:49:02 AM

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Ipswich: Transsexual hate crime victim considered suicide


Monday, July 2, 2012, 12:02 PM


http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ipswich_transsexual_hate_crime_victim_considered_suicide_1_1427875

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Julia Ford


JULIA Ford said she contemplated suicide before making the life-changing decision to become a transsexual at the age of 49.

She said: "I used to sleep with a razor blade at the side of the* bed. It was either change or commit suicide.

"I got to a point where I was so depressed I couldn't carry on living the life I was living. One morning I woke up, looked at the razor blade, picked it up, but put in a drawer and went to see my doctor.

"I then went to a solicitor to change my name."

Miss Ford started taking hormone therapy around three years ago and describes herself as a pre-op transsexual.
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