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Robert Allen (1914 - ?) film maker, radiologist, teacher
Joyce Allen from Warrington, Lancashire was a masculine tomboy who frequently scrapped with both boys and girls. She resisted having to wear girls' clothes, and took pleasure in dressing in her...
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28 trans persons in the rest of England who changed things by example or...
See also persons in London, and in Wales/Ireland/Scotland. Gentleman Jack (Anne) Lister (1791 – 1848) landowner and colliery owner near Halifax, Yorkshire. De facto marriage to local heiress. Book...
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Viktor Kalnberz Виктор Калнберз (1928 - ) trauma surgeon
Viktor Kalnberz, of Latvian descent, was born in Moscow. Both his parents graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Moscow State University. They were sent to practice in Kyzyl, the capital of the Tuva...
View ArticleDahlia McGowan (195?–) performer
There were two members of the Cockettes, the early 1970s San Francisco psychedelic drag troupe, who completed the journey to womanhood. We have already discussed Bobbi Cameron. The other was Dahlia...
View ArticleJohn Hathaway (1892–?) fraudster.
One-time student nurse at Carney Hospital, Boston, Ethel Kimball was arrested several times after 1904 on forgery charges. By 1919 he had become John Hathaway. He posed as the nephew of a wealthy...
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History of TAO: Part 1: to 1971. USAF, music, GLF
A History of the Transsexual Action Organization (TAO) and some associatesSee also Angela Douglas (1943 - 2007) musician, activistPart 1: to 1971. USAF, music, GLFbibliographyPart 2: 1972-82. TAO in...
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BibliographyPart 1: to 1972. USAF, music, GLFbibliographyPart 2: 1972-82. TAO in Miami BeachPart 3: aftermathThe two major sources that I have used for this are Joanne Meyerowitz and Susana Pena, both...
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History of TAO: Part 2: 1972-80. TAO in Miami Beach
Part II. 1972-82. TAO in Miami BeachPart 1: to 1972. USAF, music, GLFbibliographyPart 2: 1972-82. TAO in Miami BeachPart 3: aftermath1972 Douglas and TAO move to Miami Beach. Publishes Moonshadow and...
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History of TAO: Part 3: aftermath
Part III: aftermathPart 1: to 1972. USAF, music, GLFbibliographyPart 2: 1972-82. TAO in Miami BeachPart 3: aftermath1981 Douglas returns to South Miami Beach and lives in the budget Drake Hotel. She...
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Masha Bast, Маша Баст (198?–) lawyer, activist
Yevgeny Arkhipov, Евгений Архипов, went to dances as a girl, and was able to obtain female hormones. However as there was no medical supervision, illness was induced, and Arkhipov had to stop taking...
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Mark Angelo Cummings (1964–) Part I: occupational therapist, Latino...
Maritza DelCarmen Perdomo was born in Havana, of partial Taino heritage. From the age of three she was obviously a masculine girl, and constantly had problems with wearing dresses. The family emigrated...
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Maritza/Mark Cummings (1964–) Part II: serial monogamy and dissent
Continued from Part I. In 2012 Mark met his second wife, Jessica Lynn (1974 - ), in a transgender show girl bar. Jessica transitioned in her 30s with the help of a therapist after two failed suicide...
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30 trans persons in or from eastern Europe who changed things by example or...
Physicians: Franciszek Neugebauer (1856 – 1914) Polish author of seminal Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen. 1908, which is still untranslated. GVWW PL.Wikipedia Ludwig L. Lenz (1889 – 1966) from...
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Bahram Mir-djalali (1939 – ) surgeon.
Dr Bahram Mir-djalali is a surgeon in Tehran. He trained in Paris and in Belgium. He had done over 320 sex-change operations in the 12 years to 2005, far more than he would have done in Europe,...
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Kokkorn Benjathikoon โกโก้ กกกร เบญจาธิกูล (1969 - ) model, actress.
Kokkorn is well known in Thailand as a model for soaps. She acted in the two สตรีเหล็ก (Satree lek - Iron Ladies) films, 2001 and 2003 about a winning gay/trans volleyball team (based on a real team...
View ArticleJoe Carstairs/Tuffy de Pret (1900 – 1993): Part I: youth and war
Part I: youth and warBibliographyPart II: powerboat racerPart III: Lord of the islandJabez Bostwick (1830-1892) of New York was the Secretary of Standard Oil (ruled to be an illegal monopoly in 1911)...
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Joe Carstairs: bibliography
Part I: youth and warBibliographyPart II: powerboat racerPart III: Lord of the islandThe key text is the book by Kate Summerscale, which I have high-lighted below. Carstairs was a media personality...
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Joe Carstairs (1900 – 1993): Part II: powerboat racer
Part I: youth and warBibliographyPart II: powerboat racerPart III: Lord of the islandThe next year Joe commissioned the best motorboat that money could buy, a hydroplane from Samuel Saunders of East...
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Joe Carstairs (1900 – 1993): Part III: Lord of the island
Part I: youth and warBibliographyPart II: powerboat racerPart III: Lord of the islandIn 1934, 60,000 persons, 50,000 of them descendants of slaves, lived in the Bahamas. Most of the whites lived in...
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Rachael Wallbank (1956 - ) family lawyer
Wallbank was raised in an Irish Catholic family in Sydney, with a father in the army. Wallbank met his wife, Louise, at a school dance, and told her of feminine side before marriage. Wallbank did a Law...
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