Kate Toyer considers herself to be one of Australia's first visibly transgender veterinarians.
She has been practising at Batemans Bay on the NSW far south coast, along with her wife Tara Cashman, for more than 25 years.
Kate publicly identified as a binary transwoman when she was 43, when she and Tara had been married for 19 years and had three kids, and has been advocating for greater diversity in the vet industry ever since.