Transgender woman who had doubts over sex change found dead

A transgender entertainer who told ITV's This Morning she had doubts over her sex change has been found dead.

Chelsea Attonley, 33, born Matthew, was found in the early hours of Friday in a park in Derby after celebrating her birthday with friends.

Police are not treating her death as suspicious.

Ms Attonley attracted national media attention in 2014, two years after her transition, when in an interview on This Morning she said she planned to go back to her original male identity.

She told presenter Philip Schofield: "The surgery on the outside does make you feel a lot better but inside you're the same person. Nothing has altered inside."

Six months before, she told Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford that she couldn't be happier.

But she later decided against undergoing further surgery and became a popular celebrity figure in the LGBT community, regularly hosting the main stage at the Sparkle festival in Manchester.

Announcing her death on her Facebook page, her friends said: "This is devastating for all of us... her closest friends are trying to deal with it all."

Just a week before her death, a friend on her Facebook page asked her: "Are you happy how you are now?"

Ms Attonley replied: "I hope one day and I am learning... I'm not at self love just yet."

Police found Ms Attonley when they were called to Bass Recreation Ground after reports that a woman had been taken ill. She was pronounced dead at the scene.