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Ayla served as a military helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force, for 13 years and for 7 of those was an extremely proud and commended member of the RAF Search and Rescue team.
Ayla now flies helicopters for the National Police Air Service. Utilising her professional experiences of close-knit teams in challenging environments and her deeply personal experience of coming out as transgender in 2010, Ayla works alongside many others to see the integrity and empowerment inherent to inclusive cultures is experienced by individuals, allies and organisations alike. She is a committed supporter of LGBT charity Stonewall and sits on their Trans Advisory Group. She is also an advisor for All About Trans, a charity who primarily work with UK media on developing their representation of trans people.
She has been listed on the UKтАЩs Rainbow List twice by the Independent on Sunday, received one of Attitude MagazineтАЩs inaugural Pride Awards and has a shiny British LGBT Award for Inspirational Role Model. Ayla is also a patron for the charity Mermaids.
She lives in the Dorset countryside with her wife, Wren (an ITU doctor) and daughter River who joined them in 2020, plus their numerous cats and chickens.
