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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

UK's First Transgender TV Presenter Chooses 'India' As Name






A TV presenter who used to be a man named Jonathan returned to UK screens on Tuesday as a woman named 'India' and Britain's first transgender TV news reporter.

Jonathan Willoughby underwent a 14,000-pound gender reassignment operation to become India Willoughby.

"One of the reasons I decided to stand up and be counted as trans was because of all the mis-information out there.


Historically it has been branded as anything from a perversion to a joke, rather than something that is biological," the 51-year-old told

She changed her name by deed poll to India Willoughby in 2010 and for years lived as a woman from Monday to Friday after landing a PR job in Newcastle before heading back to Cumbria as a man to see her son.

Now divorced from the mother of her son, she has just landed a job as a reporter with ITV's Tyne Tees, covering the northeast England region.

ITV welcomed her back, saying: "We're pleased to have India working with us as a freelancer on the ITV News Tyne Tees reporting team."

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