Transsexual told she can’t use ladies’ toilets

SundaySun.co.uk – by Sophie Doughty, Sunday Sun

A Pre-Op transsexual was left hurt and humiliated when staff at her local pub told her she could no longer use the ladies’ loos.

Katrina Harte, who is awaiting surgery that will transform her from a man to a woman, has been a regular customer at the Briar Dene, in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, since she was 18-years-old.

But over the last 20 years, the former engineer had been hiding the emotional torment of feeling she had been born the wrong gender.