Transgender woman fights for early pension rights

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A transgender woman is mounting a legal battle to have her pension backdated to 60, the age at which women are entitled to claim.

Although Christine Timbrell undertook a full sex change in 2000 to become a woman, she is not legally recognized as a woman because she refuses to divorce her wife. Now 68, she is taking the Dep...

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