'My wife didn't believe me when I told her my true identity... until I showed her' - Liverpool Echo

'My wife didn't believe me when I told her my true identity... until I showed her' - Liverpool Echo

Her dad took her to see a psychiatrist, who suggested electric shock treatment

My wife didn't believe me when I told her my true identity... until I showed her - Manchester Evening News

Samantha, previously known as Billy, was beaten up for dressing as a woman in Wigan in the 1990s and even threatened with electric shock therapy as a child

I was searching for my identity in a bowl of scouse, and looking in the wrong place

It's way, way past midnight. My sister Vicki and I are standing on the landing outside her bathroom giggling uncontrollably, clutching the wall and each other for support. “And then he said... he said...” The sentence doesn't stand a chance of getting completed; tears of laughter are rolling down our faces. Somehow we both make it safely to bed, more or less, probably with the help of our partners but maybe not. Who remembers? Who cares?This is …