Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service transgender woman tells her story
1:00pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012
By Sally Churchward, Senior Feature Writer
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10000804.I_was_a_marine_and_a_fireman___and_now_I_m_a_woman/?ref=ntIT would be hard to think of a more macho CV than one listing Royal Marine, firefighter and father.
And Katie has done it all – when she was still living as a man.
The 40-year-old jokes that if she had been born a girl she would have been a tomboy.
In fact until earlier this year she has been living as a man – although since around the age of four she had often felt that she was in the wrong body.
When she just five she started dressing in female clothing in private, and spent part of her time living as a woman in private while she was married, with the support of her then wife.
