Intersexed, she began as a boy but became a woman
• Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others
Anna Taylor was born intersexed, raised at first as a boy then finally allowed to behave as a girl. Later she began hormone treatments and had gender reassignment surgery. Two her two husbands she was simply a woman.
"I want people to know that the successful transsexual stories are the ones you never hear about," Anna, from Cleethorpes, Lincs, explains.
It is estimated there are 5,000 transsexual people in the UK, but Anna, a senior government officer, is convinced there's another 3,000 who prefer to keep their secret.