Interview with Martine Rothblatt by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. I’m an openly transgendered technologist with graduate degrees in law, business and medical ethics. After graduating from UCLA in 1981 I began to launch satellite communication satellites by organizing their regulatory approval, financing, construction, blast-off and utilization. I did this as a consultant for the first non-government global satellite system called PanAmSat. I then did this as the CEO for several unique satellite systems called Geostar, Sirius, and WorldSpace. In the mid-1990s my youngest daughter took ill with pulmonary hypertension and since there was no approved treatment for it, I started a biotech company to create a treatment. I’ve been running that company, United Therapeutics, since that ti