PERTH rock guitarist Jaime Page is Perth’s answer to Caitlyn Jenner.

The married father-of-four, formerly Jamie, has shocked friends by recently announcing he is transgender.

Ms Page, who works at music store Kosmic Sound in Osborne Park by day, said she told her colleagues just before revealing her lifelong secret on Facebook last month.

“That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said.

“I was worried I would be cast off and I would maybe have to find a new job.”

She was shocked to receive overwhelming support.

“So the next day when I went in wearing a nice top with a bra and makeup, they all just smiled and loved me and grabbed me,” she said.

Camera Icon Jaime Page wearing a dress in public for the first time. Credit: Supplied, Don Benson Photography Camera Icon Jaime Page at her daughter's wedding recently. Credit: Supplied, supplied.

A veteran of the Perth band scene since the 1970s, Ms Page has performed with groups including Trilogy and co-wrote a hit song with Queen guitarist Brian May called Resurrection.

Ms Page started hormone therapy, which caused her to develop breasts, last July.

She plans to undergo genital reconstruction surgery.

“My wife loves me for who I am not what’s between my legs,” Ms Page said.

The 55-year old said she has identified as a woman for as long as she can remember, always wearing women’s clothing behind closed doors.

Ms Page said she shared her secret with wife Kerry in 1981, about a year before they married.

“I just told her the truth, that I’d always felt female,” she said.

Pictured wearing a dress in public for the first time, Ms Page said most of her male attire is in the bin and she now has more wardrobe space than her wife.

“Often we will find ourselves fighting over the same clothes in a shop,” she said. “We’ve been fighting over the same handbag for weeks.

“She won’t give it back.”

Ms Page said she will perform for the first time as a female at her new CD launch at the Charles Hotel on Friday April 29.

Titled Dark Universe, the CD is inspired by the sadness and isolation she faced while dealing with gender dysphoria.