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Boxing promoter Kellie Maloney says she hopes to enable other transgender people to feel comfortable in their daily lives as she relaunches her boxing career following a successful gender reassignment.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter:(On how she is feeling since her gender reassignment)

"I feel very much at ease with myself. Very contented because I am no longer being someone I'm not. I used to get up in the morning and put this suit on called The Frank Maloney Suit and I lived a lie for a long time. Now I am very at ease at myself and I think for that reason I'm a much better person, I'm a much better human being. I'm much more understanding and tolerant of society around me and I think that's been very important in my development."

SOUNDBITE (English) Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter:(On the reaction she has received from people since revealing she was going through the gender reassignment process)

"I can only say the public reaction has been first class and it has made me proud how the British public has accepted me. There's been one or two obviously but nothing compared to what I've hard from other people who have been through the same journey I've been through."

SOUNDBITE (English) Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter: (On what she hopes to achieve by coming back into the sport)

"I fought it all the time and if by me doing what I'm doing other transsexuals can say 'you know what? I work in this field, I haven't got to hide anymore because of my gender issue and people are going to accept them and respect them then that's fine and I can do that through boxing."

SOUNDBITE (English) Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter:(On how she wants to be seen)

"That's all I want the world to see me as - as a human being and pay me respect as a human being. I don't want to be labelled as a transsexual boxing promoter or a transsexual this or as anything. It's only society that has labelled me. I was born a human being, I'm going to die a human being the same as anyone else and that's what people have got to learn to respect."

SOUNDBITE (English) Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter:(On what she hopes to achieve as a boxing promoter as she starts again)

"I've fallen from this height to that height, but this height is where I'd started before and I know I can get to there. If I can achieve half of what Frank Maloney achieved it will be a bigger achievement for me."