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But despite earning a modest income, she helped pay for her daughter's gender reassignment, in part by selling some of her jewellery, and cared for her afterwards.

People who use it can also access other services such as hormone treatment and mental health services, but those approved for gender reassignment must travel outside Northern Ireland because there is no surgical service here.

Then the Equality Act of 2010 came along to set out legal protections against discrimination for specific groups - with “sex”, "sexual orientation" and “gender reassignment” included as protected characteristics.

That law’s definition of “woman” included people who were “living as a woman” and were currently or proposing to undergo the gender reassignment process.

The FA acted as gender reassignment is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.