Ezri (previously known as Danni) didn’t want to start dressing as a woman until she underwent facial feminisation surgery (Picture: ITV)

Former army commando Ezri decided she wanted to live as a woman just five months after her wedding day.

Ezri, 34, is at the beginning of her transformation from male to female but didn’t want to start dressing as a woman until she underwent facial feminisation surgery.

She made the announcement that she wanted to be a woman five months after her wedding day to Sue, which put a strain on their relationship and the pair split up by the time of her surgery.

Ezri says she found her time in the army, where she was known as Danni, extremely difficult as she ‘didn’t fit in’.




She says: ‘I did two tours of Afghanistan and opting for the commando course, I was trying really hard to be masculine. But yeah, I didn’t fit in around blokes.’

Meanwhile Sue admits that she ‘couldn’t cope’ with Ezri’s decision.

‘I hope that everything turns out really well for her but I really couldn’t cope anymore,’ she explains.

Ezri, when she used to be known as Danni, as a Commando in Afghanistan (Picture: ITV)

‘I sort of feel that Danni who I married was a made up person, so, something that Danni had projected as what she thought a man should be…

‘When Danni came out, it became apparent that it wasn’t the same person, not just a different gender.

‘I still love Daniel I think but the process I need to go through now is to grieve for the person I married, for my husband.’

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ITV documentary Transformation Street was filmed over the course of a year with access to a private clinic on Wimpole Street in London, run by world-renowned plastic surgeon Christopher Inglefield who specialises in transgender surgery.

Ezri announced her decision to live as a woman five months after her wedding (Picture: ITV)

Inglefield says his line of work is ‘a huge responsibility because it’s our role to give our patients the life that they have chosen.

‘I don’t look at it as removing something, I look at it as creating something. But it’s very interesting looking at the male members of staff standing by watching the procedure, they all just subconsciously reach down and protect their groin.’

Plastic surgeon Christopher Inglefield runs a private clinic that specialises in transgender surgery (Picture: ITV)

Christopher often streams his operations live on Snapchat to his followers, and believes this openness is a positive thing.

‘We typically have around 600 or 800 people viewing our live social media posts, and they’re not tuning in for the thrill of it,’ he says.

‘They’re seeking to learn more, understand, and perhaps prepare themselves for their own operations.’

Transformation Street airs tonight at 9pm on ITV

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