Lily B. McBeth (born 1934) is an American transgender teacher from Tuckerton, New Jersey. She was born William B. McBeth and as part of her transition underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2005. She has three grown children from a previous marriage of 33 years. She is a retired medical sales & marketing executive She was an active surfer, sailor, skier and duck hunter. As former soldier she served in the U.S. Army as a Senior Medical Corpsman with a tour duty in Alasks. She says that she had always perceived herself as female and identified with other women. She says that for many years, she was afraid to address her transgenderism and felt that her first priority was keeping her family together for the sake of her children.