Happy Mother' Day Karen/Tommy

Readers of a local newspaper were stunned when it turned out the winner of a Mother’s Day competition used to be a man.

Karen Buckley, 43, won an evening out after her partner Peter Keeffe put her name into the Somebody Special competition.

The pair were chauffeur-driven to a restaurant in a limo and Karen was presented with a beautiful bouquet, reports The Sun.

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.

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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