I want a chance to be the woman I should be

Lisa calls on NHS to fix botched reassignment surgery

- MARCELLO MEGA

A TRANS woman who was tried for murder during her life as a gangster is pleading with the NHS to fix botched gender reassignment surgery.

Lisa Docherty said that anatomically she was left "like a child's doll" in 2007 after a series of infections ruined the gender reassignment operation she'd had five years earlier.

The 52-year-old says she has been written off by the NHS and is desperate for help to become "a complete person" again.

She added: "I'm not asking for special treatment. I just want a chance to be the woman I always felt I should be."

She claims the Sandyford Clinic, in Glasgow, Scotland's major centre for gender-related issues and health, seems to have "washed its hands" of her even though she is desperate after being unable to have an intimate life for 16 years.

In an exclusive interview with the Record, she explained genital surgery was all she was given in 2002 and none of the work that would have made it easier to be accepted as a woman had been done.

She added: "Nothing was ever done about the fact that, like many male-to-female transsexuals, I have male features.

"That was the root of my gender dysphoria and that's what still makes me uncomfortable when I look in the mirror.