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Article: Berkeley employees may receive sex-change benefits
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 5, 2007
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BERKELEY -- After three marriages that quickly broke up as soon
as she told her male and female spouses she felt trapped in the
wrong body, Lynn Riordan decided she couldn't remain a man the rest
of her life.
So at age 39 she began taking hormones that would gradually begin
her transformation from man to woman. Then, unemployed but with
$11,000 scraped up from the equity on her home, she paid for a sex-
change operation four years ago in Montreal. The procedures cost
less there than in the U.S., she said.
"It seems to be a medical condition, not a choice, and many
people have tried to be what they are not. I did, for 30 years, and
couldn't do it anymore."
Today, the 49-year-old Riordan is ...
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