Gender Transition
In 2003, Palmer came out as transsexual and intersex, changing her name to Dee. Palmer was born with genital ambiguity, assigned female at birth, and underwent several surgeries, the last in her late twenties. Palmer said her gender dysphoria had been a part of her life since she'd been young, and that the dysphoria "started to reassert itself again" in the year following the death of her wife Maggie in 1995.
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