Elizabeth, 56, underwent a male-to-female sex change operation in 1981 and married Michael Bellinger the same year.

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After being born a boy, she became the first Briton to undergo a sex change operation, in Casablanca in 1960.

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This one is sort of a Dog Day Afternoon story except for the bank robbery and the sex change operation.

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What was unfair, her last opponent and her manager say, is how Fox didn't disclose until after the fight that Fox had a sex change operation.

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Heidi Krieger, the 1986 European women's shot-put champion, became Andreas Krieger after a sex-change operation in 1997.

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But during the case, it was revealed that she herself had become a woman only after a sex-change operation.

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The sequences from the past include scenes of rape, kidnapping, imprisonment in chains, and a forced sex-change operation, all of which is remarkably unpleasant.

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One member of the class had had a sex-change operation.

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Well, yes: she was once a chap herself until she had an operation to change sex a few years ago.

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Similarly, Germany's Federal Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that regarding an operation as a precondition for a legally valid sex change was increasingly problematic.

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