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Writer and former Australian Defence Force officer

For other people with similar names, see Katherine McGregor (disambiguation).

Catherine McGregorAM is a prominent Australian writer, commentator and former Australian Defence Force officer.^[4]

She has worked as an Australian ArmyOfficer, as a cricket commentator and writer, and as a speechwriter to former New South WalesLaborPremierBob Carr, former Federal Labor Party leader Kim Beazley and to the Liberal Party election campaign.^[3]

Gender transition

McGregor stated that she was diagnosed as transgender in , following a prolonged period of alcohol and drug abuse, but it was not until that she, in her own words, "repudiated [her] birth sex".^[1] While McGregor's father died, aged 42, in from a brain tumour, her mother survived him until and McGregor considered that transition would have "appalled" them and therefore chose not to transition until just after her 56th birthday.

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