Jenny Bailey
Jenny Bailey, born in Doncaster in 1962, is a telecommunications engineer and Liberal Democrat politician who was the first trans person in the UK to be a mayor.
She had been married with two children in her twenties, but the marriage came to an amicable end. She began her trnsition in 1990 aged 29, and during hormone therapy met her current partner Jennifer Liddle, who was having the same treatment.
Jennifer Liddle was elected to Cambridge Council in 2000, and Bailey followed her in 2002.[1] In 2007 Bailey was elected mayor, and took Liddle as her mayoress.
In 2011 Bailey and Liddle had a civil partnership. They live in Cambridge with Bailey's two sons.
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- ↑ http://www.jsquared.co.uk/jennyb/index.php?txt=council.html&title=City%20Council. Accessed: 2013-07-25. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6IMvK3ksY)