NZHerald.co.nz – Simon Collins
On September 9, 2005, Christchurch Police Constable Stephen Lurajud became Constable Sarah Lurajud. The date is etched in her mind.
For 45 years she had lived as a male. For 20 of those years she was married.
But even before she went to kindergarten, she knew she was a female trapped inside a male body.
Her story, as the only police officer in New Zealand history to undergo a sex change, is told in her own words for the first time in a report published by the Human Rights Commission today.