A SEX-SWAP Falklands veteran who claims she was sacked by the Navy for wanting to be a woman faces the next stage of her compensation battle with military top brass.

Bolton transsexual Lynda Cash - formerly Brian Waling - hopes to get the go-ahead next month to take the Ministry of Defence to an employment tribunal claiming she was unfairly dismissed just four years after serving as a man alongside Prince Andrew in the South Atlantic war.

The ex-Navy operating theatre technician, who treated horrifically injured men on board HMS Invincible, faces a preliminary hearing in Southampton on January 13 which will determine whether she can take her case to a full tribunal.

She told the BEN: "I'm very confident I will win. I loved my job and it was taken from me for no reason."

The 48-year-old Westhoughton woman claims she was discharged in 1986 after embarking on hormone treatment prior to a sex-swap operation in 1988.

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