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Aleksa Lundberg (1981 - ) actress, activist.
Lundberg, at the age of 15, was able to start an acting acting career with a recurring small male part in the Swedish television series, Kenny Starfighter. Three years later she started transition,...
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Barbara Diop (198? - ) model.
Barbara Diop from Dakar, Senegal was able to obtain some modelling work in Milan in 2001, and appeared in Vogue Italia.She then moved to Cape Town. The 2003 Cricket World Cup was held in South Africa....
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Michelle De Ville (1958–) performer, habilleuse.
19-year-old De Ville first met transsexuals in a Montréal gay bar. They were dressed as men but had obviously started on hormones. This led to a discovery of the bars that catered to transvestites and...
View ArticleSandra Day (1939 – 2010) bookseller, performer.
After a childhood in Ebeltoft, Jutland, and training as a bookseller in Copenhagen, Sandra Day transitioned in 1969, and has since performed in Copenhagen nightclubs as a stripper and whip queen, and...
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Trans Activism in Canada – a review
Dan Irving & Rupert Raj (eds). Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. Canadian Scholar's Press, 2014. $69.95.When I reviewed Susan Stryker's Transgender History, 2008, I commented: "the title needs...
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Sabrina Petra Ramet (1949 - ) Professor of Political Science.
UK-born Ramet became a US citizen in 1966, and graduated with an AB from Stanford in philosophy in 1971, an MA from the University of Arkansas in International Relations, and PhD from UCLA in Political...
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Yasmin Lee (1983 - ) actress. activist.
Lee was born in Thailand of Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, and Brazilian heritage. The family moved from Thailand to the Philippines and then to California.Lee joined the U.S. Navy at age 18, but he was...
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Amy Weston (1988 - ) astronomer
The six-year-old Weston was inspired by the solar eclipse in northern New England in 1994, and vowed to be a scientist. After education at the elite private school Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire ,...
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26 trans Latinas in the US who changed things by example and/or achievement
Clarabelle (18?? - ) queen mother of Los Angeles' Bunker Hill. GVWW Geraldine Portica (189? - ?) from Mexico, chamber maid. GVWW Schlitze (1901 – 1971) from Mexico, carnie pinhead, film actor. GVWW...
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Anette Egelund (1956 - ) sailor, politician.
Hugo Holm was raised in Svendborg, Denmark, and initially worked as a sailor. He later joined the anti-tax, anti immigration Fremskridtspartiet and was elected to Parliament.He lost his parliamentary...
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Orlaith O'Sullivan (197? - ) writer, editor
O'Sullivan, born and raised in Dublin, completed a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature at Trinity College, in 1997. She then became Curator/Cataloguer on manuscripts and early printed books at the...
View ArticleCarlett A. Brown (1927–) sailor, performer, cook
Charles Robert Brown from Pittsburgh volunteered for the US Navy in 1950 to obtain medical treatment for periodic internal bleeding. He was treated for a 'serious mental illness', which Brown said...
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WorldPride in Toronto, Trans March 27/06/14
Sign says 'trans asexuals exist'. Hirschfeld told us that, D'Eon was one.The superstition & hatred counter demonstrationDrag Queens were left off the invitation, but came anyway
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Anna Kristjánsdóttir (1952 - ) marine engineer, activist
Kristjánsson was educated as a Marine Engine Officer and worked as a Control Room Engineer at the Reykjavik Energy Co. Scania for a year. Kristjánsson married and they had three children. They were...
View Article26 trans persons in Scandinavia who changed things by example or achievement
In addition to the citizens and residents below there are some others with a Danish connection: There is a rumour that a Sergeant in the UK Army, part of the occupation forces in Hamburg in 1945, was...
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Nicole Dolder (195?–) software engineer, actor, director.
Raised in London, Dolder made a first effort at living as a woman in the 1970s, while working as an audio engineer, but was unable to complete transition.From 1978 to 2012 Dolder worked for Hewlett...
View ArticleHarry Sidney Foy (1901 – 1942) barman, female impersonator.
Harry Foy was born in Sydney, NSW. The son of a horse-trainer, Harry worked as a barman, but at night he was Sydney’s best-known female impersonator after Lea Sonia died.He had appeared at various...
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Paris Green (1991 - ) convicted of murder
In March 2013 Paris Green was in the early phase of transition and living in Glenrothes, Fife. She and two others, Kevin McDonagh and Dean Smith, who had served in Afghanistan, invited Robert...
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Paula Nielsen (1938 - ) secretary, evangelist, performer,
Larry Nielsen of Portland, Oregon, became a born-again Christian at age 12.In the 1960s Nielsen became a patient of Harry Benjamin, and as Paula transitioned in 1963. In stealth Paula was active in her...
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Petra De Sutter (1963 - ) gynaecologist, academic, senator
De Sutter was raised in Oudenaarde, in East Flanders. De Sutter gained an MD, 1987, and two PhDs, 1991, 1994, from Ghent University, and also studied at the Reproductive Genetics Institute in Chicago,...
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