A TRANSGENDER parish councillor says she feels angry and frustrated after her local community magazine decided against publishing an article about her transition from a man into a woman.

Kevin Jones was born with gender dysphoria, also known as gender identity disorder, and decided to start living full time as Kate last year after decades of internal anguish.

The 44-year-old, who lives in Yatton Keynell near Chippenham, wrote an article about her difficult journey for community magazine, The Honeycomb, but received an email last week from editor Mike King stating the editorial committee “did not, however, come to a general agreement that such a personal account was suitable for inclusion in the Honeycomb”.

“I felt quite angry when they said it was not for publishing,” said Ms Jones, who has lived in Yatton Keynell for 11 years.

“Apparently one member of the editorial team threatened to resign if it was published.

“All the people in this village have been 100 per cent supportive of me going from Kevin to Kate and they have been very generous with their time.

“This is the first bit of negativity.

“The motivation for me to write the article was just to make it really simple to understand the concept of transgender.”

Ms Jones runs her own IT support business in the village and is also a parish councillor for Yatton Keynell.

She broke up with her wife of 15 years, Natalie, as a result of her transition but has her support and the support of family and friends. She also has two sons, James, 14, and Sam, 10.

Editor of The Honeycomb, Mark King, defended his decision not to include the article after they were approached by Ms Jones.

“His family live in the area and the last thing we want to do is cause further upset as he has got children and has divorced,” he said.

“It’s not the sort of thing we want, there are people in the area who we have been told would be upset.

“The other thing which upset us was the photos, a coy picture of a young lady which is not acceptable.

“Ultimately the editor has to make the final decision.

“Even if changes were made I don’t think we’d put it in, not because I’m prejudiced, it’s just not our type of article.”

Ms Jones added: “It’s 2016, we have moved on but they are set in their ways.”