My mom became my dad!!! Daughter comes home to the surprise of her life ! Shirley Asselprez spent years searching for the mother she had been seperated from as a child and when she finally found her, she got the shock of her life - because her mom had become a man ! "A private investigator I'd hired gave me an address where my mother lived and I decided to go there without telling her I was coming", she said. "When a man answered the door I figured it was a friend of my mother's". But after a few minutes Shirley began to realize the stunning truth. I told the man who I was and that I was here to see my mom - and he told me he was my mother. I thought it was some kind of cruel joke, but the more he talked the more I realized he was telling the truth". "I didn't really know how to react", 24-year-old Shirley said. "I was happy to finally find my mother but I was flabbergasted to discover she had become a man". Shirley, who was put up for adoption when she was a baby, started searching for her mother when she became pregnant three years ago. "When I started a family, I dediced I wanted to find the family I had never known". By this time her 45-year-old mother, Martha, had undergone a sex-change operation and now called herself Martin. Now Mandy says she has recovered from the initial shock and is growing very close with her male mom. "After we talked, I realized that no matter what he was then or is now, he's someone who loves me. I'm still his daughter and no operation in the world can change that".