www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/decisions-led-dad-become-transgender-1944624
"As well as having made the huge decision to begin transgender treatment, Martin also decided that he would not hide any longer.
He would come out as a transgender woman - as Katie - in a way which was very publicly indeed.
Since then, he has been shouting his experiences from the rooftops via social media and local radio and – by and large – has received something of a hero’s welcome."
"Martin/Katie was not only heterosexual, he wanted a child.
He cut his hair, fell in love and the couple had a child together, who is the apple of his eye.
Then in May last year, Martin went to see a clairvoyant he had met at a business networking meeting.
“I went along for a reading because I’d never been to one and I was intrigued,” she says.
What she told him was that he needed to start a new way of being and said there was a part of him that had always been there but that he was not fully in integrity with."
"after that, my gender dysphoria increased dramatically – I was so desperate to identify myself I even Googled ‘what gender is Martin Neeves?’ ”
Desperate, confused and in turmoil, he joined a support group on social media and someone suggested he should see a specialist gender counsellor.
After four successful sessions, in which he says he "hit the ground running", he felt that he was "gender fluid" ("nature doesn’t do black and white, it presents a whole spectrum.")"
"Katie now says: “After counselling and working through therapy on how to identify your gender, I now know I am 70 percent female and 30 percent male.
"It was my fear stopping me from admitting I am actually a transgender woman.”
A second visit to the clairvoyant resulted in a four-hour clarification session using deep meditation and other methods as a way of encouraging and revealing inner truth, with all the answers coming from Martin."
"She looks wonderful and feels great. Her prescribed hormones have made her skin soft, and as a naturally slightly-built person, she has an enviable figure.
She counts herself lucky as many other transgender women are naturally of a heavy build.
Brave determination has paid off, she is happier and more relaxed than ever.
Katie’s name will not be considered for the long waiting list for the actual operation to make her into a woman sexually, until she has lived full-time for a woman as a year."