Meet 27 year old British Army's First transgender officer says "I was living a lie"

                   After transforming into a woman and when he was a man

Hannah Winterbourne is the British Army’s first transgender officer after serving in the battlegrounds of Afghanistan, hardened

The 27-year-old  captain in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineersw as born a boy and spent her first few years in the Army as a man, before deciding to undergo a sex-change operation while on a tour of duty at Camp Bastion.

She said sharing a tent in the desert with seven men ‘living on top of each other’ made her realise how little time she spent being herself.

‘In Afghanistan I was living an act, I was acting for everyone around me,’ she said. 

‘There was no let-up where I could stop the act. Previously, I relished my own time where I could be honest with myself.

‘In Afghanistan I couldn’t do that so that was a nudge which eventually ended up with me coming out and changing myself and my way of life.’

Beautiful as a woman though.