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  April Ashley: Her Role in My Transition

  Posted by Carol on 07/11/2015 at 2:35 am

  April Ashley, the first UK SRS person to hit the media back in 1960, has been in the news quite a bit this year as she turned 80 and had a museum exhibition in Liverpool celebrating her life. You can google a multitude of stories about her but here are just two:
  http://www.aprilashley.org.uk
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/6637773/April-Ashley-50-happy-years-for-sex-swop-pioneer.html

  A recent post by Christina (Another retro look at Trans) provided a link that reminded me of my earliest trans thoughts. In 1960 I was just 12 years old and a voracious reader. In the Sunday newspaper I found a version of April’s life. The thing that hit me was that the physical transformation, at least initially, seemed to have come on her by surprise in her teens. I was both horrified and fascinated. I asked my parents who assured me this only happened to people who were already that way inclined. Nevertheless within two years I was seizing every opportunity to borrow my mothers clothes and increasingly fantasising about my body changing. I think I have to credit April Ashley with kick starting my journey. Thank you April.

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