DailyMail.co.uk – By Jan Hamilton
A little over a year ago, Ian Hamilton was a 6ft, 16-stone captain in the Parachute Regiment – a much-decorated career soldier who had served at the sharp end of every major conflict of the past two decades, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then Ian realised he really was a woman in a man’s body. He changed his name to Jan Hamilton and, thanks to female hormones and extensive plastic surgery, became an elegant size 12 who could turn heads at any cocktail party.
Jan’s family disowned her, the Army summarily dismissed her. Now Jan – accompanied by a Channel 4 TV crew – has travelled to Thailand for the final, irreversible operation to change her, at last, into a woman. Here is her moving story…