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Caroline Paige

Flight Lt. Caroline Paige is the first openly transgender officer to serve in the Royal Air Force. She says once fellow officers saw she could do the job, her identity was no longer an issue.

The RAF’s first openly transgender officer says competence trumps prejudice with her fellow soldiers

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After serving in the military as a man for nearly two decades, Caroline Paige became the Royal Air Force’s first openly transgender officer in 1998. She says her colleagues have accepted her like any other officer, and she wants to help lift bans on transgender people serving in places like the United States.

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