Transgender Cork farmer (65) surprised at positive response to telling her story

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Erica Coates (65) said it was like a sentence ‘my body was free but my mind was in solitary confinement’

counter to ask about make-up. The woman was so friendly and helpful that she announced that she was a transgender to her.

“She was the first person in the world that I said it to her , a complete stranger . I was getting that way, slowly but surely, more feminine bit by bit but that was the day the gate opened and from then on, I was just going across that bridge and I wasn’t going to go back and that was it. “It was like a sentence over me, my body was free but my mind was inside in solitary confinement, sentenced for life, and the sentence came off and the gate was opened that day,” said Erica who now wears dresses and skirts in feminine colours and pink wellies around the farm.Group, Erica had a confirmed diagnosis of gender dysphoria and is currently transitioning to female and all the time drawing huge encouragement from her neighbours and friends in Kildinan and beyond.

“A lot of people have said to me that from the time I came out and crossed that bridge, they told me ‘You’ve totally changed completely - you’re always happy now’ ... I wake in the morning and see my nails done and I wear a dress or a skirt or something and I can’t explain it, but it just feels so right.”

 

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