Transsexual fights for early pension rights

Although Christine Timbrell undertook a full sex change in 2000 to become a woman, she is not legally recognized as a woman because she refuses to divorce her wife. Now 68, she is taking the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court in an effort to have her pension backdated. Under legislation introduced in 2004, transsexuals are entitled to enjoy all the benefits of their new gender. However an important caveat stated that married transsexuals could only have their gender recognised if their marriage had been annulled or divorced. But Timbrell, who remains happily married...