right now save 50% on the labor day limited edition bed, plus 24-month special financing. hurry ends monday! know better sleep with sleep number. fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. right now a major victory for a trance jent woman fighting for the right to change her live walking out of the bucks county courtroom in her 40s, forced to battle her parents to be able to transition. good evening and thanks for joining us. i m iain page. i m dawn timmy. lucy is off tonight. fox 29 s chris o connell was there fort controversial ruling and he s with us tonight with more on the emotional reaction. chris. reporter: christina kitzler would rather die on the operat operating table than continue living as a man. the 48-year-old will be getting her wish for a long awaited sex reassignment surgery but first, she had to fight her parents and go to court to make it happen. it was like split live i m glad i don t have to have any more. reporter: c
i never wanted to be man. look i wanted to be girl. reporter: after 16 months of therapy in preparation kitzler from south carolina came to bucks county to have the surgery that would change her life. it was supposed to happen yesterday but at the 11th hour, kitzler s parents drove from ohio to file an emergency injunction to stop that surgery. they wanted to make september that their son was making an informed and conscious and safe decision, and the proceeding today was necessary. reporter: her parents call the surgery barbaric and risky and after suffering from hiv, hepatitis c and depression, they say kitzler isn t mentally competent enough to make that decision. just because a parent doesn t agree with their child s choice doesn t mean that you can then use the legal mechanisms and legal avenue to declare that person incapacitated. reporter: after day long hearing, a common pleas court judge cleared the way for kitzler to have that gender reassignment surgery
CUMBERLAND — The Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization and Abortion Free Allegany will hold a memorial service for the unborn June 24 at 2 p.m. at Davis Memorial Cemetery, Uhl Highway.