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Leon Belmont (1853- ?)
Raised as a girl in Warren, Massachusetts, east of Springfield, Addie Walker, the child of a shoemaker, became Mrs Leon Stanley. In 1876 Walker/Stanley was indicted in Springfield, Massachusetts for...
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Trans Minnesota Part I: before 1960
Both the Dakota and Ojibwe first nations had what we now call two-spirit traditions. The male-born Dakota who took on women’s roles were called wiŋkte or wiŋkta, an abbreviation of wiŋyanktehca (ones...
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Samantha Kane (1960 - ) executive.
Original version 6/10/2011, revised March 2017, September 2023.Sam Hashimi was born and raised in Zofaranaya, a suburb to the south of Baghdad. When the family was out, he would dress in his sister’s...
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William Smith (1824 - ?) boot cutter
William had been raised as a girl called Sarah Geals, and trained in the family trade of boot-making. In the 1840s Smith arrived in London, began to dress as male and gave out the name of William...
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Ernst Burchard (1876-1920) doctor and sexologist
Part I: lifePart II: LexikonPart III: history of cis wordsErnst Burchard was born in Heilsberg, then in Germany, but now Powiat Lidzbarski in Poland. His father was a doctor, but apparently he was...
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Ernst Buchard's Lexikon
Part I: lifePart II: LexikonPart III: history of cis wordsTransgender lexicons:Virginia PrinceRose WhiteRaven UsherChris BartlettJack MolayRaphael CarterJohn Money – part 1: gender and transexualJohn...
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Part I: lifePart II: LexikonPart III: history of cis wordsCis = this side of; Trans = that side of. Anyone who has studied history and/or geography is aware of Cis/Trans Alpine; Cis/Transylvania;...
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Gabbi Tuft (1978 - ) wrestler, online fitness advisor
Tuft, born and raised in Sonoma north of San Francico, had childhood yearnings to be a girl, but turned to body building after being bullied at school. Tuft married in 2002, and they moved to Southern...
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Trans Singapore: Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971
Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971Part 2: 1972-nowComments and MediagraphyPart 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971The Bugis are a people from south Sulawesi (previously Celebes)...
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Trans Singapore: Part 2 1972 - now
Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971Part 2: 1972-nowComments and MediagraphyPart 2 1972 - now1972 New Nation newspaper (Singapore) ran a ground-breaking survey of gay life in Singapore...
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Trans Singapore: Comments & Mediagraphy
Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971Part 2: 1972-nowComments and MediagraphyThe new Bugis JunctionCommentsIs there a Chinese original of Cries From Within? Leana Lo calls it “Cries in the...
View ArticleArnold Wyss (1878 - ?) office worker - first Transvestitenschein in Switzerland.
We know of Wyss only from the police file in Zurich. We do not know Wyss’ female name.---Arnold Wyss was born and raised in Bern, Switzerland. At the age of eight he found a suitcase belonging to a...
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Zhao Yede 赵烨德 (1965 - ) sex-change surgeon
It is said but not confirmed that the first transgender operation in China was performed in secret in 1983.In 1992 Zhao Yede, from Zhejiang province, was working as a resident in a hospital in Beijing,...
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Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (1990) author, actress
Boulianne-Tremblay was born and raised in Saint-Siméon, down river from Quebec City, on the north shore of the St Lawrence River.Gabrielle came out as trans in 2012. Her first volume of poetry, Le...
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Tara O’Hara (195? – 198?) performer.
Original June 2011, revised November 2023.Tara's male persona was raised by a Jehovah's Witness family in New Orleans. In the early 80s, he was working in Berlin as an English teacher.Tara and Jayne,...
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Broden Giambrone (1982 - ) activist.
++Original April 2014; revised December 2023.Giambrone grew up in the West End of Toronto. The family are of Italian descent and moved to Canada from the US to avoid the Vietnam War. Broden...
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Jeanne Hoff (1938 – 2023) psychiatrist
++original Septemeber 2013, revised February 2019 to include extra detail from Gill-Peterson's book, and December 2023 to acknowledge Jeanne's passing. Eugene Hoff was born in in St Louis. Hoff did...
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James Bidgood/Terri Howe (1933-2022) 1950s drag performer
James Bidgood was born and raised in Wisconsin. He moved to New York City in 1951.He found work at the drag nightclub Club 82 when it opened in 1953 as a set and lighting designer, and then as one of...
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Books on Gender Variance in 2023 - Part 1: (auto) biographies
Trans AutoBiographyCyrus Dunham. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir. Back Bay Books, 2021.Diana Goetsch. This Body I Wore: A Memoir. Picador, 2023. Gigi Gorgeous. He said, she said : lessons, stories,...
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Books on Gender Variance in 2023 - Part 2
$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. Media$£¥ € Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer, Sarah McRae & Julie Rak (eds). Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational. Routledge, 2023.ReligiousJoe W...
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