Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor is a speech writer for the Australian Chief of Army and former infantry platoon commander.

Broadcast date: Wednesday 18 September

Cate, a Duntroon graduate, is the third generation of her family to serve in the armed services but the first to do so during and after gender transition.

Outside the Army, Cate has been a political adviser and journalist, but one of her greatest enthusiasms is for sport.

When she began writing a book about cricket in 2011, Cate was known as Malcolm McGregor. By the time it was launched, she was living as a woman and had changed her name.

Cate says her Army superiors, specifically Lieutenant General David Morrison, and the institution as a whole, have displayed overwhelming public support of her gender transition.

An Indian Summer of Cricket is published by Barrallier Books.

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