SundayMirror.co.uk – By Sarah Arnold
In her low-cut dress Lucy Parker smiles confidently at the camera. She couldn’t be more different than the picture of the 11-year-old boy in his school uniform with the pudding-basin haircut.
Yet the pictures taken seven years apart are of the same person. Richard Parker, schoolboy, has become Lucy Parker, the teenage girl who loves make-up and wearing the highest of high heels.
At 18 Lucy is the youngest transsexual in Britain. She started hormone treatment at 16 and has had an operation to give her breasts. In a few months her transformation will be complete after a final operation.
“Some people will say I am too young to have made this decision, but for me becoming a true woman can’t come soon enough,” says Lucy. “I have spent 16 years trapped in a man’s body, but my soul is a woman’s.”
At the beginning of the year Lucy, who’s a Size 8 and 5ft 10in tall, had 34C breast implants – an 18th birthday present from her mum Allison, 41.