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News and Events => People news => Topic started by: Natasha on May 02, 2009, 06:58:24 PM

Title: Sex change Army hero Jan to become Scotland's first 'transgender' police officer
Post by: Natasha on May 02, 2009, 06:58:24 PM
Sex change Army hero Jan to become Scotland's first 'transgender' police officer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176734/Sex-change-Army-hero-Jan-Scotlands-transgender-police-officer.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176734/Sex-change-Army-hero-Jan-Scotlands-transgender-police-officer.html)
5/2/09

A paratrooper who underwent a sex-change operation has been accepted by the police as a trainee woman constable.

Jan Hamilton, formerly Captain Ian Hamilton, quit the Army in 2007 after 20 years' decorated service and embarked on a full gender reassignment programme.

Now living in Glasgow, she has been accepted by Strathclyde Police to begin two years' probationary training, making her Scotland's first transgender police officer.