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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A radio journalist or on the till at Marks & Spencer.
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I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
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A man. I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don’t like being identified as female: I’m a person.
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It’s already happened – HRT.
Kind, loyal and (slightly) mad.
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