La escritora Jan Morris se casa de nuevo con su primera esposa a los 82 años - Sex-change author Jan Morris remarries wife she wed as a man

Fuente: La Vanguardia (España) (Noticia extraída de Agencia EFE, Londres)-. (In english Trans_Bitacora)-.
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La historiadora se sometió a un cambio de sexo en 1972 y las leyes británicas la obligaron a divorciarse de su mujer con la que tiene 5 hijos

Londres. (EFE).- La escritora británica Jan Morris, que nació hombre y en 1972 se sometió en Marruecos a un cambio de sexo, se ha casado por lo civil con su primera esposa.

Morris, nacida como J.H.Morris en 1926, contrajo una unión civil con Elizabeth Tuckniss, con la que se casó por primera vez en 1949 y con la que tuvo cinco hijos, informa hoy la prensa.

En 1972, J.Morris (Trans_Bitacora se reserva el total derecho a no mostrar su anterior nombre masculino) se sometió a una operación de cambio de sexo en Marruecos porque las leyes británicas de entonces le exigían que se divorciase primero de su mujer, algo que él no quería hacer. Tras la operación, Morris siguió casada con Elizabeth, pero por poco tiempo ya que, debido a la legislación, se vio obligada a divorciarse, aunque la separación fue amistosa.

Casi sesenta años después de casarse con Elizabeth cuando aún era hombre, la historiadora y escritora de libros de viajes contrajo una unión civil con ella el 14 de mayo en el ayuntamiento de Pwllheli, en Gales. "Estamos juntas otra vez de manera oficial", dijo Elizabeth a la prensa británica. "Después de que Jan se cambiara de sexo teníamos que divorciarnos, así que lo hicimos. Para mí no era diferente. Aún tenemos nuestra familia", agregó.

Tras la unión civil, las dos mujeres, que viven en Llanystumdwy (Gales), lo celebraron tomando el té en la casa de un amigo. Según la prensa, la pareja quiere que cuando mueran sus restos sean sepultados cerca de su casa con un epitafio en galés e inglés que diga: "Aquí hay dos amigas, al final de una vida juntas".

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Sex-change author Jan Morris remarries wife she wed as a man

(Photo: Jan and Elizabeth Morris had five children during their first marriage - REUTERS)-.

Jan Morris, the writer who famously chronicled her sex-change operation in the book 'Conundrum', has remarried the wife she first wed as a man.

The civil partnership ceremony took place nearly 60-years after the author married the woman, who was to become her life-long companion, and more than 30-years after they divorced.

In 1949 the then James Morris, a young journalist, married Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a Ceylon teaplanter.

Her companion always knew that her then husband believed that he ought to have been born a woman and accepted the sex-change operation.

The couple divorced after Miss Morris, 81, underwent surgery to turn her into a woman in Morocco in 1972.

The highly-acclaimed 'Conundrum' and its autobiographical follow-up 'Pleasures of a Tangled Life', described Miss Morris's pursuit of her true identity as a woman.

The latest chapter in her extraordinary life came to light when she appeared on BBC Radio 4's Bookclub programme.

"I haven't told this to anybody before," Miss Morris said. "But I have lived with the same person for 58-years". We were married when I was young and (she) took the family name and then this sex-change, so-called, happened, so we naturally had to divorce. So we were divorced, but we always lived together, anyway. So, I wanted to round this thing off nicely.

"So last week, as a matter-of-fact, Elizabeth and I went and had a civil union."

As a man, Miss Morris was a well-known journalist and in 1953 was the first reporter to break the news that Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing had conquered Everest.

As an author, she wrote the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire which she started as a man and finished as a woman. Recently she was named as the 15th greatest British writer since the Second World War.

As man and wife, Mr and Mrs Morris had five children, including a daughter Virginia who died aged only two months. Miss Morris's latest book `Venice' is dedicated to their child who died in infancy.

After the divorce, the writer referred to his companion as her "sister-in-law" as they continued to live together in the Welsh village of Llanystumdwy.

The civil partnership ceremony was held last month in council buildings in Pwllheli on the Llyn Peninsula in North West Wales.

Elizabeth Morris said: "We are back together again officially. After Jan had a sex change we had to divorce. So there we were. It did not make any difference to me. We still had our family. We just carried on."

"It was quite private. It was very nice indeed. We were offered biscuits and coffee. You had to sign your name and read a thing out, and that was it. Not like marriage vows, really."

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