Sarah Brown
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Sarah Brown is a Cambridge City Councillor She is also on the executive of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) + Liberal Democrats organisation and chairs its transgender working group. She describes herself as “probably the only ‘out’ transgender activist serving as an elected politician in the UK”, [1]
In 2001 she married Sylvia Knight. In 2007 she underwent gender reassignment surgery. Under the current law, Sarah and Sylvia had to be divorced and then form a civil partnership so she could be officially recognised as a woman.[2]
Sarah Brown was placed number 28 on the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2011, and is the highest-ranking transgender person on the list.
