A TRANSGENDER beauty queen is hoping to become a mother using sperm she had frozen before her sex change.

Fay Louise Purdham, 28, is now searching for a woman to be a surrogate mother to carry her future child.

She plans to raise her baby as its mother, but biologically would be its father.

The natural mother would have to undergo IVF treatment and have an embryo fertilised using Fay’s frozen sperm implanted into her womb.

Miss Purdham, who was born Kevin Lee McCamley and grew up in Fatfield, Washington, said: “Even before I knew I wanted to become a woman, I wanted to be a mother.

“I have transitioned to my chosen gender, but it’s a huge task and cost to do this, so I’ve set up a Go Fund Me page up to help me on my journey to become a mother and have my dreams come true.

“It’s cost £60,000 in surgery to become a woman (half paid by the NHS and half paid by Fay), and it’s another £100,000 to pay for a surrogate to provide me with eggs and carry the child.”

Fay changed her name by deed poll at 19 and had her first surgery at 21, to remove her Adam’s apple, after realising at 16 that she was transgender and discussing it with her GP.

At the weekend, she came third in the first Miss Transgender UK finals after winning the regional final three weeks ago.

She said: “I was tortured growing up because I was feminine.

“I was told by so many people that I was gay, I felt that it was imposed upon me. But I wasn’t, I was transgender.”

Miss Purdham, who lives with partner Chris – her childhood best friend - in Middlesbrough, said she still has to fight for acceptance.

She said: “Sometimes it’s harder when you look more like a girl, because you have to explain yourself to people instead of them guessing for themselves. “When I went to Miss Transgender people were saying ‘you can’t be a contestant, you’re not transgender’."

She added: “I think people need to be careful with the use of the word transgender.

“I didn’t go through all this to become transgender, I did it to become a woman. “I want to be known as a beautiful woman, not a beautiful transgender woman.”

To donate to Fay’s Go Fund Me page visit www.gofundme.com/faylouisemum2be