Trans woman with all her ‘male bits’ ordered to serve her jail time for battering lover in women’s prison over bullying fears at men’s jail
A TRANSGENDER woman who still has all her “male bits” has been ordered to serve her jail time for battering her lover in a women’s prison over fears she would have been bullied at a men’s jail.
Pre-op transexual Natalie Kearney, 20, was handed a 12-month sentence at Liverpool Crown court following a string of attacks on partner Michael Hollywood, 44.
Prosecutors said she punched, kicked and bit Hollywood, after revealing she cheated on him, but blamed the attack on the emotions brought on by her sex change.
Kearney, of Wallasey, Merseyside, twice assaulted Hollywood in September last year and was given a restraining order and fined.
But despite being banned from seeing him for three years the couple still lived together at Hollywood’s Wallasey flat.
On March 6 Kearney, who had been drinking heavily, slapped him during an argument about her “infidelity”.
The pair went to bed but the following morning the row resumed and she punched him in the head.
Jamie Baxter, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: “She kicked him, causing him to fall over a glass table, and continued to assault him on the floor, biting his arm.”
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He ran to a phone box and called police, but Kearney told officers she loved him and claimed she acted in self-defence after he attacked her.
She was found guilty in her absence of common assault and breaching her restraining order.
Kearney was cleared of another assault on Mr Hollywood on March 21, when he fell and broke a bone at the base of the spine.
During a second trial she admitted kicking him in the stomach, but said she had acted in self-defence.
Kearney was found guilty of two further counts of breaching the order, including sending apologetic messages to him on Facebook.
Baxter said: “The Crown says she persistently and deliberately breaches court orders. In her own words ‘it was just a piece of paper’.”
Gareth Bellis, defending, said: “This is a woman who is going through a long transition in her life from male to female, with large hormonal imbalances.”
Bellis urged the judge to impose a suspended sentence on Kearney, who will undergo sex-change surgery at the start of next year.
But Judge Brian Cummings QC refused, saying: “There has to come a point where you take responsibility for your own actions.”
Judge Cummings jailed her for 12 months and imposed a new five-year restraining order.
Kearney, who was born Matthew previously told how at the age of eleven she began to feel different.
She explained: “I remember suddenly being fascinated by my sister’s clothes. I also loved trying on wigs.
“I remember one afternoon all the other boys in our street were out on their bikes and I was running around in my sister’s clothes with a wig on!
“Everyone was laughing at me but the truth was, it felt so natural.”
As time passed, Kearney continued trying on girls’ clothes and posing in front of the mirror.
She also began experimenting with her friend’s make-up at school.
She recalled: “By the time I was 14, I’d rush in from school and try my sister’s clothes on in front of the mirror when everyone was out.
“I’d stand in front of the mirror and pretend I was someone else.
“I felt so wrong in my school trousers and jumper and my big bulky boys’ shoes.
“I couldn’t explain it but I just felt I was the wrong person or in the wrong body.”
While she waits for gender reassignment surgery Kearney has been taking female hormones she bought online and is thrilled with the results.
She added: My jaw began to soften, my arm muscles vanished and boobs started to grow.
“Then I developed a bit of a curvy bum too. I was thrilled. I was becoming a woman.
“I’ve got a great face, a great figure. There’s only one problem still to sort – my male bits!”
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