I IDENTIFY AS JACOB REES MOGG

Forget transsexuals, now it’s transidentities

ALL her life Harriet Gore knew she had been born in the wrong body.

Growing up in Wigan, Lancs, she knew her interest in history, English Catholicism and the Conservative Party was unusual.

But the 42- year- old had no idea why she had such a different outlook on life to her peers.

She said: “I tried to join the Young Conservatives but there wasn’t one in Wigan. The ward I lived in voted 90 per cent Labour so whenever I said about how much I admired Margaret Thatcher I was subjected to a lot of abuse.

“I remember one teacher dragged me out of class by my collar when I said she was right to take on the unions in a class debate.

“I was suspended for a week.

“Of course, mater and pater agreed with the school – they were both Labour Party activists.”

Harriet also converted to Catholicism and studied History at the Open University while working as a piemaker.

Life was hard and pretty miserable and

LIGHTBULB MOMENT: Harriet ( realised she is actually Tory toff Rees- Mogg ( she had very few friends, although her strident anti- EU campaigning helped win some pals.

Then, 18 months ago she had an epiphany – that feeling of being in the wrong place, in the wrong body and the wrong brain had a reason…

She wasn’t really Harriet Gore from Platt Bridge in Wigan, she was Jacob Ress- Mogg!

She said: “It was a real lightbulb moment.

“Suddenly I realised why everything had been so ‘ off’ for me all my life – I was in the wrong body and I should have been born in Jacob Rees- Mogg’s body!”

NO REPLY: Harriet has written to Jacob at Parliament

She has since called this odd phenomenon “transidentityism” and is campaigning to get the condition recognised.

She added: “I’ve tried to contact Jacob at the Houses of Parliament but so far he’s ignored me, which is frustrating, but I understand – if I was him, which I am, I would ignore me, too.

“I hope anyone else suffering from similar problems will take comfort from my story.

“Not everybody is born in the right body – sometimes biology gets it wrong.”