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Diana Thomas

@dianawpthomas

Diana Thomas is an award-winning columnist, feature writer and thriller novelist who spent six decades as a man before transitioning in her late fifties. She chronicled the ups and down of her transition in a remarkable weekly column in the Daily Telegraph, for which she was awarded Columnist of the Year at the 2020 PPA Awards, and the Chairman's Award at the 2020 Press Awards. She lives on the south coast, but still supports West Ham

<p>‘I went to dinner a with a gorgeous, charming, intelligent man… and felt deliciously female and tingly and alive’</p>
Voices

On dating apps, I know how hard it is to be a transwoman

<p>Diana Thomas went in search of a destination that would suit a solo traveller </p>
Florida

Is Florida safe for a trans woman on holiday?

<p>‘The nurses pulled the curtains closed and asked if I would mind telling them what it was like to be transgender’ </p>
Voices

I’m trans and fractured my spine – don’t I belong on a women’s ward?

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