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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

‘After 22 years of hiding who I was, I’m now living my life’

As a child, Stephanie Jones would sneak into her sister’s bedroom to try on her make-up and dresses.

The 34-year-old, from Wallasey, loved watching fairytale movies and always visioned herself being a “princess one day”. Regardless if it was Cinderella or Snow White, the former cave instructor knew “settling down with a prince” would be in her future.

However, what she didn’t expect would be the obstacles she had to go through to make that dream a reality. Stephanie, who was born in Birkenhead, claims as early as the age of four, she would go to bed wishing she would wake up as a girl in the morning and not have her skin feel like a “crisp wrapper”.

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