It would be after I was 14, maybe even 15, because my parents waited until I started asking questions. I was diagnosed when I was roughly 2 years old at, gosh, the famous children's hospital in London, but in lots of ways I am very grateful for the fact that nothing was said until I started asking questions. I think it is quite difficult to know what the impact of knowing from an early age might have been.

We'd seen a lot of doctors and things when I was younger but it was never properly explained, fully explained, so I suppose the general sense of knowing something was up stemmed partly from that and obviously partly because puberty wasn't happening - you know it was sort of - why not?

I think they have both had a lot of anxieties for me, but more my mum, because mums do worry don't they anyway, but I think they did their best to keep it less covert - as hidden as they could, and I got a terrific sense from my family background really that I could do anything I wanted, you know if I put my mind to it basically. I think Dad was particularly good at that, you know, it's just that without actually saying it. It's just knowing that the family had a belief in me, it's been a real strength. They must have kept a lot of worries to themselves I think - for the best of reasons.

Imogen: Well nobody ever suggested growth hormone. Not so far as I am aware anyway. Certainly not to me directly, and that might be because I am probably on the taller side for Turners. So that wasn't an issue, which I am quite glad about.

Interviewer: How tall are you?

Imogen: I am about 4'9". But I have actually shrunk a little because I'm 47 now.

Imogen: On the HRT I was led to understand that if I went on it too early it might mean that I didn't reach my full natural height so I actually delayed it and I didn't start taking it till I was 22. I had already met my husband.

Interviewer: So did you didn't develop secondary sexual characteristics before that? It didn't bother you obviously?

Imogen: Very little. I suppose the body shape was probably what they would call pre-pubescent really. Um, once I started the HRT things happened rather quickly. That's a funny sort of adjustment as well, I don't know whether to call it a difficult period. I think it was in some ways, and nobody else can do it for you or cope with it for you. You have got to do it yourself. I think holding on to your own identity which you have obviously developed because you have reached that age, before you go through those changes is not particularly easy.