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Heli Hämäläinen v. Finland
(In this account, Mrs Hämäläinen refers to Heli's cis spouse). Helsinki resident, Hämäläinen (born 1963), did a degree in economics and became a customs officer. He married as a man in 1996, and he...
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Mavi Susel (195? - ) housewife
Susel was abused at school and at home, and father wanted the child out of the family home. After several suicide attempts, Susel became Mavi, was chosen to be Cuba's first surgical transsexual and had...
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Anna Grodzka (1954–) publisher, entrepreneur, Member of Parliament
Krzysztof Bęgowski was born in Otwock, 24 km southeast of Warsaw, and raised by adoptive parents. Krzysztof graduated in Clinical psychology from the University of Warsaw, where he was active in the...
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Wynd D. Harris (196?–) professor of marketing.
Harris worked in public administration and telecommunications. With a PhD from the University of Oklahoma, he was a Yale post-doctorate fellow, and professor of marketing and international business at...
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Frances Harris (1941 - ) fraudster.
Frederick Harris and his wife had three daughters. His sister Pamela died in the 1960s.For a while Harris owned a bar in Spain with William Coutts as a partner, but they separated on bad terms.Harris...
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Jennifer Diane Reitz (1959 - ) activist, game designer, artist.
Raised in Oregon, Reitz studied biochemistry, but left without a degree. Jennifer had surgery at age 22. Since then she has lived in a polyamorous family that has grown to four persons, three women and...
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Vicki Strasberg (193?–?) sex worker
Vicki took her surname in homage to Susan Strasberg, the daughter of Lee, the famous acting teacher. Transvestite at her birthday party, N.Y.C. 1969Vicki was 6 feet (1.8 m), on hormones and gorging on...
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Christina Kahrl (196? - ) sports writer, activist.
Original November 2008; updated July 2014. Chris Kahrl was raised near Sacramento. Kahrl did a history AB at the University of Chicago in 1990, married a woman and was divorced, and did an MA at...
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Rüzgar Erkoçlar (1986 - ) actor.
Nil Erkoçlar was named for the Nile river. At 10 years old she was acting in Turkish commercials. At 15 she was the model for sanitary pads. She acted in nine television productions and one film, and...
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Lana Wachowski (1965–) film writer, director.
Larry Wachowski and brother Andy are of Polish descent, and were raised in Chicago. They both dropped out of college and ran a construction business, while creating comic books for Marvel and Epic. In...
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Miranda Yardley (196? - ) accountant, music magazine publisher
From Manchester, Yardley completed a degree in Accounting and Finance at Bangor University in 1990.After moving to London, Yardley worked externally for a publishing company. In 2000 Yardley & Co,...
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Olivia Watts (1961–) police officer, naturopath, Wicca.
For 18 years Watts worked as a male police officer in Casey, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. In 1995 Watts retired from the police, started to transition as Olivia, and set up in business as a...
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Kim Walmsley of Liverpool is a female cis heterosexual.Kim Monaghan was born in 1965. As expected, her parents received a birth certificate for her that said ‘girl’ but somehow she had been entered...
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Haa-Lacka Binttii – musician, composer
Daniel Figgis (1961 - ) is a distinguished Irish musician and composer.Using the pseudonym Haa-Lacka Binttii, he was drummer and keyboardist with the Dublin band Virgin Prunes 1979-1980.Haa-Lacka...
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Synthia China-Blast (1974 - ) convicted murderer
Luis Morales grew up in the South Bronx where she always felt that she was a girl. Her sister helped her with underwear and makeup.She was selling crack at age 13. At 16 a squatter-house burned down...
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Brigitte Boréale (1963–) broadcaster, sports journalist.
Brigitte is a presenter, journalist and television actress on Pink TV, the French gay channel, where she does sports programs.She has had a few small parts in films. In July 2011, her daughter Morgane...
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Bet Power (1950 - ) archivist, activist
Of Polish descent, Power was born and raised in Chicago. Power's father, a sailor taught the child, who already thought of himself as a boy, carpentry, baseball, bowling, billiards and poker. He played...
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A re-reading of Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors.
I have already written about Leslie Feinberg’s life.There are two editions of this book, both Beacon Press, 1996: Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul (hardback) and...
View ArticleOwain mab Urien (50? - 595) prince.
It seems that Urien, king of Rheged (later known as Strathclyde), a 6th century kingdom on the border of what is now England and Scotland, arranged for his son, Owain to go to Glasgow to court Teneu,...
View ArticleTrans women in the New York Correctional System
Daniel Genis recently finished a 10-year prsion sentence. He has written about his experience for The Concourse: "A Gentleman's Guide To Sex In Prison". There are two references to trans...
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