Robina Asti shares her extraordinary love story and her fight to receive survivor benefits after losing the love of her life.
After serving as a pilot during WWII, Robina Asti transitioned to living as a woman in the 1970s.
Now 92 years old, she fondly remembers spending time over the Pacific during World War II. She was only 21 at the time.
Getting her pilot's license at just 18, Robina became a commercial pilot and flight instructor.
In 1976, she decided to begin living as a woman "in body, soul, and mind." The prejudice against her at that time was extraordinary.
Working as a vice president of a mutual fund, she would go to work in men's clothing and then change in the evenings.
"It was quite burdensome, and I knew it would never be accepted then. So I quit and decided I had to live and work as a woman."
