He took a deep breath and told her: “No mum, I don’t want to be a woman – I AM a woman”. Fast forward eight years and Evan has now transitioned to Ella and she is ­working at transgender clinics. At first she told her mother Amanda, 54, a housewife from Bristol, who kept her secret so Ella could tell the others in person. “The moment anyone I knew said anything belittling Ella and her transition, I was the first to put them to rights. Following psychological assessment, she had to spend two years living as a woman before gender reassignment surgery six years ago.

Source: Daily Mirror November 28, 2020 17:29 UTC