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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks

‘She just wanted to live how she wanted to’: couple mourn their trans daughter

A white couple with arms over each other holding framed photos of three young children
Peter and Caroline Litman at home in Effingham, Surrey, with framed photos of their children: Alice, Harvey and Kate. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

Sitting together in the light-filled living room of their family home in Surrey, Caroline and Peter Litman finish one another’s sentences, as can happen after 28 years of marriage.

“We’re not the most well-informed,” says Peter, 57, who wears a small ‘trans ally’ pin on his T-shirt.

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