An Unusual Girl

"I had never looked at myself as a male in any way whatsoever", she said. "I was not someone who regarded myself as a woman trapped in a man's body - I was a girl born with a penis, that's all."

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She cultivated the androgynous look of the 1980's, the New Romantic era when boys and girls alike wore make-up and trousers, and all the jobs she applied for were female orientated.

"I wasn't ambitious in a career way at all and just went from job to job, but I always looked for work associated with women. I worked as a waitress, and as a receptionist for a while. I was even an assistant in a health club, measuring the ladies to see how many inches they had lost. All the girls used to wear little white uniforms, and I know the clients never thought I was any different from the rest."

Louise first went to her doctor about her condition when she was 22, because she had started to grow facial hair, and she was worried what other hormonal changes were about to hit her. "I didn't go through a male puberty like the other boys, but then I hadn't expected to.

"Then suddenly in my early twenties I began to get beard growth, which was really horrifying to me. So I went to ask the doctor what he could do about it.

"He sent me to a psychiatrist and all that sort of thing, but the so-called experts were useless, they hadn't a clue what they were talking about with me. All they were interested in was why a man should be thinking like I did, while all I wanted to know was why I, as a woman, was getting a beard. It was just a physical problem as far as I was concerned, but they thought I was mental."

The breakthrough for Louise came via a friend, who introduced her to a man who had been born a woman but had undergone a successful sex-change at Charing Cross Hospital. He went with her for her first appointment, and Louise was finally on her way.

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