Article: Berkeley employees may receive sex-change benefits

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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