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Did you know that America's highest paid female executive was born a man?

Samantha Cowan writes at takepart,

Martine Rothblatt raked in a cool $38 million last year, according to The New York Times. Rothblatt tops the list as the highest-paid female CEO in 2013. Twenty years ago, Rothblatt would not have been able to claim this title — Martine was born Martin.

The 59-year-old founder and CEO of publicly traded pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics transitioned from male to female in 1994. Rothblatt made her first fortune as a founder of Sirius radio in the 1990s when she was still living as a man, New York magazine reports. She launched her current endeavor in 1995, shortly after her transition.

For Rothblatt, gender is more fluid than identifying as male or female. Even after deciding to undergo a sex-change operation, she prefers to use “Pn.,” for “person,” rather than “Mr.” or “Ms.”

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