April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Her Name in Lights in celebration". While Pennyblack Music's Malcolm Carter noted "[t]here’s not a dud song on here ... [t]he major attraction is Wyer's vocals, cute, youthful, but without any annoying feyness". Her Name in Lights Her Name in Lights are an indie pop band led by Mary Wyer (ex-Even As We Speak) on lead vocals with her husband Almond Cafarella on guitar and piano, as well as Simon Holmes of The Hummingbirds on multiple instruments and Simon Gibson of Sneeze on drums. On 18 October 2004 they released their first album, "Into the Light Again", on Laughing Outlaw Records. Mary Wyer (ex-Even