Not everyone identifies as a male or female and Chris always knew she didn’t fit into either category.
But Chris rejected radical surgery and hormone therapy because she felt there was nothing about her that needed to be re-assigned.
Chris since came to understand that she was not living in the “wrong” body and most importantly, that gender is a spectrum.
Now a mother of two grown-up children and recently retired as deputy principal at a secondary school in Dublin, Chris has written a book about her life and how society should move beyond labels.
Chris spoke to The Last Word earlier, listen back here: