ROME: An Italian mother who had a sex change has, in her new incarnation as a man, married a female childhood friend at a ceremony witnessed by their children.
Elena Silla, a 32-year-old nurse now officially known as Christian, married 35-year-old journalist Algia Flati. The pair met 20 years ago at school.

Four years ago, Silla decided to become a man, taking the name Christian "at the suggestion of her 10-year-old daughter", the Corriere della Sera newspaper said.

Soon afterwards she met Flati again, who by then was a divorced mother of two, and the pair became close.

AFP