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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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