battered while out with her boyfriend has opened up about coming out to her parents. Anna Montgomery, 20, had just finished dining with Jamie Girvan when she says she was hit in the face as she enjoyed a drink.Police said they were treating the incident in Belfast city centre on September 26 as a hate crime.
The aspiring beautician told BelfastLive : “The day I told mum I was transgender changed everything. When I think back now those five little words changed our world forever.
I just said to her: ‘I’m not Aaron, I’m Anna.’ “It didn't change her opinion of me. She looked at me for a moment and then hugged me and said it was alright, that everything would be alright.