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A Woman to Know: Carlett Brown

A Woman to Know: Carlett Brown

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Julia Carpenter
Apr 19, 2016
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I just want to become a woman as quickly as possible. That's all. — Carlett

(image via Jet Magazine)

As Charles Brown, Carlett had been a U.S. Navy SEAL, a Harlem social butterfly and a male shake dancer. As Carlett Angianlee Brown, she renounced her U.S. citizenship in order to travel overseas to visit (at that time) the only doctor in the world who woul…

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