A 61-year-old transwoman from Wales got so frustrated with the wait for her gender reassignment surgery that she attempted to perform her own operation, on herself, in her bathroom. Roland Mery, who is currently married to a woman and fathered four children, took matters into her own hands after being told she would have to wait two years for surgery to remove her male genitals. "From the moment I walked down the stairs after I did it I just felt right," she told the WalesOnline website. "I had repressed my feelings for so long. I had worked out exactly how I would do it and rehearsed it many times. It proved to me afterwards that your brain and emotions can overpower you so much. I had rehearsed the whole thing over and over. So when it came to actually doing it, the pain wasn't an issue anymore." Mery lost two pints of blood, and called out to her wife to summon an ambulance. The full story is on the WalesOnline website.
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First published: Thursday, 27th August 2009 - 1:32pm