The first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery has received her MBE medal for services to transgender equality.
Liverpool-born actress and campaigner April Ashley was honoured during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Born George Jamieson in Liverpool in 1935, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in Morocco in 1960 and went on to have a successful modelling career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-20708017
ok im not a prude but an MBE wtf nxt
give the MBE,s to our young serving soldiers in afghanistan