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EXCLUSIVE: The woman who police allege carried out the 7-Eleven axe attack, is a transgender unionist once named Karl.

EVIE Amati, who police allege carried out the terrifying axe attack on two early morning customers at the Enmore 7-Eleven last weekend, is a transgender union employee who used to be known as Karl.

The 24-year-old, who police claim is the person caught on CCTV swinging an axe at a woman buying milk and a man buying a pie at 2.20am last Saturday, transitioned to female four years ago.

News.com.au exclusively revealed the CCTV footage which showed a blonde entering the 7-Eleven carrying a long-handled axe and then attacking Ben Rimmer, 32 and Sharon Hacker, 43, as they queued at the cash register.

On Facebook in April 2012, when she was still posting as Karl, Ms Amati invited friends to “Karl’s 20th birthday drinks” and complained about her phone not working, signing off as “an irate-as-f*** Karl”.

In June 2012, she declared on her page that Evie Amati “thinks he has wanted to be a girl for a while now and wants to act more publicly feminine. Thoughts? Comments? Insults?”

The comment attracted a stream of positive responses from family, friends and colleagues where Ms Amati worked as an organiser for the Community and Public Sector Union.

She discussed composing a “coming out” email to announce her transition to work mates at the union, which is based in Haymarket near Sydney’s Chinatown.

News.com.au can also reveal that Ms Amati was a university student studying US foreign policy and comes from a large Italian-Australian family.

She was also a drummer in a punk rock band called Everything I Own is Broken, which performed at a union function

With the two other musicians in the band that played in Sydney, Newcastle, Byron Bay and Brisbane in 2013 and 2014, Evie Amati appeared to perform as a male and then later as a female.

On Facebook in September 2012, she announced she would be starting hormone therapy, writing, “Today I gained approval to start hormone replacement therapy. Trans ftw! Boobs: here I come!”

Following Ms Amati’s arrest in Enmore shortly after the attacks at the 7-Eleven, she requested in Parramatta Bail Court that she be given access to two hormonal drugs commonly used by people who transition from male to female.

Ms Amati, who is currently in custody after being refused bail, has been charged with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm.

Ms Amati asked the court that she be supplied with the oestrogen booster Progynova, and Spractin, a testosterone suppressor.

News.com.au understands that Ms Amati is being held in Silverwater Women’s prison and will have access to health care while on remand in custody.

In October 2012, Ms Amati said on Facebook “I am trans”. She also discussed on Facebook taking inspiration from US punk band Against Me! lead singer Tom Gabel, who is now known as Laura Jane Grace.

The terrifying video of the axe attack, which police allege was carried out by Ms Amati, shows the bloody rampage second by second as it takes place inside the 7-Eleven at Enmore, in Sydney’s inner west, in the early hours of last Saturday.

At 2.19am a blonde wearing black shorts and singlet and carrying a long-handled black and red axe strolls casually into the convenience store.

Sharon Hacker, who has distinctive long-coloured dreadlocks, is at the cash register paying for milk.

After strolling in, the young woman who police later allege is Evie Amati, disappears down the first aisle of the shop and reappears after Ben Rimmer has emerged from an aisle to pay for a meat pie.

Her back to the camera, the blonde woman has a knife protruding from the back pocket of her shorts.

The woman chats casually for several seconds with Mr Rimmer, who at one point touches the axe and appears to make a joke.

At 2.20:44am, the woman swings the axe and brings it down on Mr Rimmer’s head.

He collapses backwards across the shop floor.

Four seconds later, the woman brings the axe down on the back of Ms Hacker’s head and she collapses through the door as the woman swings the axe again and brings it down.

Then the woman steps over Ms Hacker and strides out onto the bitumen parking bays and away.

Mr Rimmer, who is in a pool of his own blood, tries to get himself together while Ms Hacker manages to pull herself up to stagger back into the shop.

As police and paramedics are called to the bloody scene at the 7-Eleven, bystander Nathan Wood says he chases the axe-wielding woman down the street until she allegedly swings the axe again at the person behind Mr Wood.

Police converge on Stanmore Road and a short time later a police dog allegedly finds Ms Amati lying in the front yard of a property along the road.

Evie Amati is listed to appear for mention in Central Local Court on Thursday.