That same year, Rachel reminisced:
From a WMAZ article at the time:
Same leadership, same skills on the job, but one noticeable change Chief Rachel Mosby is transgender, taking the steps to go from a man to a woman during her time in one of the city’s top jobs. …
“In 2004, I became a district chief,” she recalled. She came to Byron three years later as a fire marshal. … “It started in 2016, I started medically transitioning,” Rachel said.
Rachel is transgender. Uncomfortable as a man, she began the journey to becoming a woman. “I mostly grew up in a small town, smaller than the one I live in now, and information wasn’t available and it wasn’t something you just went and asked grownups about. there just wasn’t information sources for this stuff,” she explained.