{"id":8233,"date":"2003-04-08T14:31:45","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/08\/happy-mother-day-karentommy\/"},"modified":"2003-04-08T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2003-04-08T19:31:45","slug":"happy-mother-day-karentommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/happy-mother-day-karentommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother' Day Karen\/Tommy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers of a local newspaper were stunned when it turned out the winner of a Mother’s Day competition used to be a man.<\/p>\n

Karen Buckley, 43, won an evening out after her partner Peter Keeffe put her name into the Somebody Special competition.<\/p>\n

The pair were chauffeur-driven to a restaurant in a limo and Karen was presented with a beautiful bouquet, reports The Sun.<\/p>\n

But when her photo appeared in the Rochdale Observer, some readers were stunned. They knew Karen was once a man called Tommy who had a sex-change operation four years ago.<\/p>\n

One reader complained: “How can the winner of a Mother’s Day prize be a man? It makes a mockery of the whole thing. Yes, she has got children – but she’s their dad not their mum.”
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