THORNTON MELON

A man who claims he was misdiagnosed as a transsexual will be allowed to sue the medical team that advised him to have a sex change, an Australian appeals court ruled on Friday.

Alan Michael Finch was 21 years old when he underwent a sex change operation to become a woman in 1988.

By 1996, however, Finch said he was "a mess" and struggling to live life as a woman named Helen. The following year, he began another round of surgery and reverted to life as a man