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20/03/2008
Para War Veteran 'Changes Sides'
A British paratrooper - who served on the front line in Afghanistan - has undergone surgery to become a woman.
Ian Hamilton has had a series of sex change operations to become Jan.
Speaking of her experience, Jan said that no one had any idea of what she was going though.
"Nobody - not my friends, not my family, not the lady I was married to for 10 years. I was extremely good at camouflaging my feelings and my emotions.
"Towards the end in Afghanistan it was getting to the stage where I wished I could die out there.
"Because if I did nobody would ever have to know about what I was," he said.
Jan added: "I felt immense guilt about what I was but this is a birth condition, there is nothing weird or warped about me."
Jan is now looking forward to living her life as a woman.
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Ian Hamilton has had a series of sex change operations to become Jan.
Speaking of her experience, Jan said that no one had any idea of what she was going though.
"Nobody - not my friends, not my family, not the lady I was married to for 10 years. I was extremely good at camouflaging my feelings and my emotions.
"Towards the end in Afghanistan it was getting to the stage where I wished I could die out there.
"Because if I did nobody would ever have to know about what I was," he said.
Jan added: "I felt immense guilt about what I was but this is a birth condition, there is nothing weird or warped about me."
Jan is now looking forward to living her life as a woman.
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