‘I was threatened with electroshock as a child for wearing a dress – now I’m proudly trans’

Samantha came out as trans in retirement (Picture: Belong Wigan/PA Real Life)A builder threatened with electroshock therapy for wearing a dress as a child has come out as trans in her 60s.Samantha Wolsey, 69, threw on a dress for the first time when she was six and felt something she had never had before – gender euphoria.‘I felt absolutely superb when I first put a dress on,’ she recalled.
But her father did not feel the same way. Instead, he took his child to a psychiatrist,