Personal stories

Through the Gender Labyrinth: How a bright boy with a penchant for tinkering grew up to be one of the top women in her high-tech field. Pioneering computer scientist Lynn Conway tells her story (LA Times 2000-11-19)
Breaking Chairs And Catching The Vultures: when trans people tell their story in the news media, it’s not always a free choice, says Claire McNab.
The secret life of Cynthia Watson (The Independent 2000-10-16)
What secret do these women share?…. they use to be men: five trans women tell their stories (The Mirror 2000-08-01)
Forty years after my sex change I’m still treated as a joke, though I don’t get my face slapped any more: April Ashley interviewed as she returns briefly to England (The Express 2000-07-28)
School bursar to return as woman (Daily Telegraph 2000-07-15)
Sex-change Iranian hates life as woman … and wants to change back (The Guardian 2000-06-20)
Vicar plans sex change with support of parishioners and Bishop (BBC News 2000-06-19)
’It sounds silly but I’ve nothing to wear’: Cassandra Jardine meets Rev Peter Stone, the first Church of England vicar to have a sex change (Daily Telegraph 2000-06-23)
An Inconvenient Woman: In order to turn the murdered American soldier Barry Winchell into a martyr for gay rights, activists first had to turn his girlfriend, Calpernia Addams, back into a man. (New York Times 2000-05-28)
Secret double life of the Army war hero who died a woman: death of non-op trans woman is reported as that of a man (Daily Telegraph 2000-04-11)
… and a reply by PFC vice-president Susan Marshall