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Judith Jack Halberstam (1961 - ) academic. Part 1
Halberstam's grandfather was the Rabbi in the town of Most in the Sudetenland. He died of a heart attack in 1936. After the Nazi occupation, it was permitted that some Jewish children be allowed to...
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Jack Halberstam (1961–) academic. Part II
Continued from Part 1.The next year, 1999, in an interview in Genders, Halberstam wrote: "The term 'female masculinity' stages several different kinds of interventions into contemporary gender theory...
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Shabnam Mausi Bano शबनम मौसी (1955–) social worker, politician.
Chandra Prakash was born to the Brahmin family of a superintendent of police. However the child was discarded and handed over to hijras to be raised. She had only two years of schooling, but speaks 12...
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Ja'Von Crockett (1965 - ) cosmetologist, barber, drag queen, pastor, changeback.
Javon was raised in South Carolina. He had 6 elder brothers. His twin sister died a crib death. His father left one day and never came back. At age 8 he was seduced by a gay preacher. Ja'von earned a...
View ArticleWalter Sholto Douglas (?1790 - 1830) short story writer.
George Douglas (1761-1827), the sixteenth Earl of Morton, Representative Peer of Scotland, Baron Douglas of Lochleven, chamberlain of the household to the queen consort, Knight of the Order of the...
View ArticleSago (190? - ? ) performer.
In the late 1920s, in the city of Jacobabad, in present-day Pakistan, the famous local personality Pir Abul Hasan, developed a serious interest in Sago, a hijra who acted in local theatre. In May 1929...
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Edward Sagarin (1913 – 1986) sociologist
Edward Sagarin was the youngest of eight children born in Schenectadty, New York to Russian-immigrant Jewish parents. His mother died in the 'Spanish' Influenza epidemic in 1918, and his father...
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Jennifer Fox (193?–?) performer
Jennifer Fox, a Las Vegas stripper and showgirl, was preparing for genital surgery in 1968. She was advertised as “The Myra Breckinridge of Burlesque” and “Isn’t He or Isn’t She?"Surgery over, Fox...
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Madeleine Pelletier (1874 - 1939) Part I: psychiatrist
Anne Madeleine Pelletier was born into a poor Parisian family. Her parents had a small fruit and vegetable shop. Her father, who also was a cab driver, had radical anti-clerical views. However, her...
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Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) Part II: doctor and activist
Continued from Part I.From 1905 Dr Pelletier eked out a living as a local doctor, a doctor for the post office and was the first woman to become the doctor for the welfare department. She always wore...
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25 trans Europeans who found their destiny in North America
See also 22 trans Americans who found their destiny in Europe Charles Hamilton (171? - ?) quack doctor in Somerset, inspiration for Henry Fielding's The Female Husband, moved to Philadelphia. GVWW...
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Micheline Anne Montreuil (1952–) lawyer
Montreuil was born in Québec City where the family has lived since 1627. After studying law in industry, administration and education, Montreuil competed to be federal Liberal Party candidate in 1984...
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Liu Shi Han 刘诗涵 (1989 - ) model
Liu was raised in Changsha長沙; Hunan. After graduating from Hunan Mass Media Vocational Technical College, Liu performed as a professional pole dancer and with a boa constrictor for three years, saving...
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Alessandra di Sanzo (1969 - ) actress.
Alessandro di Sanzo was born in Gattico, Piermont, but later the family moved to Rome. di Sanzo was an apprentice hairdresser when recruited by an agency to audition to play a trans teenager in reform...
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Aase Schibsted Knudsen (1954 - ) media academic
Knudsen was born in Fumes, Norway, and did a BSc Electronics Engineering at Gjøvik University College, 1979 and a PhD in media production at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a BSc....
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Helen Wong ( 1973 - ) actress
Wong was born in Guizhou, China, grew up in Hong Kong, emigrated to the United States at age 17, and lives in Los Angeles. While doing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Southern...
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Léo Kret (1983 - ) musician, councillor.
Kret of Pernambués,Salvador, Bahia, was talented even as a child, and came to the attention of television personality, Clodovil Hernandes, who arranged years of training. Kret became a dancer and funk...
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Harry Benjamin's Other Books
The NO.WIKIPEDIA (Norwegian) page on Harry Benjamin gives his published works as: The second item, Better sight without glasses, has also been claimed by Gallus Mag. Andrea James, gave the same...
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Tommy Vasu (191? - 1965) bar owner
Tommy Vasu was the first known lesbian to legally own a bar in San Francisco, possibly using the money she made managing the sex work of a number of her girlfriends. She ran Tommy's Joint at 299...
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Lucy Lawson (Hicks) (Anderson) (1886 - 1954) cook, madam
Tobias Lawson was born in Waddy, Kentucky. By the time she started school, she was insisting on wearing dresses, and called herself Lucy. Her mother took her to a physician and was advised to raise the...
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