‘Every day it breaks my heart’: The long wait for freedom from the wrong body

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‘Every day it breaks my heart’: The long wait for freedom from the wrong body
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South Africans seeking gender-change surgery through the state health system face a frustrating process that takes many years.

Alice Fairbrass, 50, of Blairgowrie in Johannesburg, has been living in the body of a male since she was toddler. When, as a child, she told her parents about her feelings, they laughed at her. She never mentioned it again. ..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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