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    Transgender Dad: Becoming A Woman Cost Me My Family

    Father-of-six Mark Hughes lost everything after coming out as transgender woman Abby-Grace. Her parents disowned her and her oldest two daughters stopped speaking to her - but Abby says she’s never been happier. The 47-year-old had known all of her life that she had the mind of a woman, but it wasn’t until last year that she summoned the courage to come out. The Mancunian ex-window cleaner, who now lives in Idaho, America, has left her old life - and her children - behind to start afresh as Abby.

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