WalesOnline 1st Pinc List
WalesOnline has issued a list of 40 LGBT notable person in Wales in association with Cardiff's Pride Cymru.The trans persons in the list are:1. Captain Hannah Winterbourne. Highest ranking trans...
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Jennifer McCreath (1973 - ) government employee, marathon runner, political...
McCreath was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and raised in Toronto, did business degrees at Toronto's Humber College, 2000, and Alberta's Athabasca University, 2005, and obtained a position as Senior...
View ArticleA Ma'dan mustergil (1917–?) landowner, poet.
Her father was a rich Sheik of the Ma'danمعدان, the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet. She was then the only child her parents had together, but her father had...
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Racheal McGonigal (1955 - ) farmer, businessman, sex worker
McGonigal was raised in Gisborne, north-east New Zealand. He cross-dressed from age 7, but also played in the school's rugby first 15 and was head prefect. At 21 he consulted a doctor about feeling...
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Pooya Mohseni (1978 - ) actress
Pooya was raised in Tehran. As a child she did not even realise that she was not officially female. As a teenager she withdrew, and by 16 was hardly talking or eating. “I had never met a trans person —...
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Who was Bunny Eisenhower?
Several trans histories tell us that Bunny Eisenhower and Lee Brewster founded the Queens' Liberation Front in 1970, and that they worked with Sylvia Rivera. We know quite a lot about Lee Brewster, but...
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Donna Gee (1949–) sports writer, journalist
Gerry Greenberg was raised by a Jewish family in Caerphilly, Wales. His mother died of polio when he was six, and he was then sent to boarding school until father remarried. His first job at age 16 was...
View ArticleDrag Queenery on the Road to Womanhood
Dolly Parton: “It’s a good thing I was born a girl … otherwise I’d be a drag queen.”Mae West: “Camp is the kinda comedy where they imitate me.” Leslie Feinberg: "I've heard women criticize drag queens...
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Solange Dymenzstein (194? - ) dancer, actress.
Dymenzstein was born in Montreuil outside Paris. At age 2 the family moved to Jerusalem where the child went to a French Catholic school with children of diplomats. At age 11 they moved back to Paris...
View ArticleHussain Rabie (1974 - ) shot-putter and discus thrower.
Zainab Rabie, a Bahraini, knew by age 8 that she was different. Zainab married at age 25 but it didn’t work as she did not have standard female organs or chromosomes. Rabie became a champion...
View Article20 trans/intersex persons in or from West Asia who changed things by example...
Physician Bahram Mir-djalali (1939 - ) Tehran surgeon, trained in Paris, has done over 1000 sex change surgeries. GVWW Lawyer Fawziya Janahi (1962 - ) Bahraini lawyer who has represented trans men....
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Peter Walker (1942 - ) plastic & reconstructive surgeon
Pater Walker's father was a Dutch diplomat, and his mother an art teacher from Christchurch, New Zealand. Until the age of 10 he was educated at English private schools in Egypt, and after that at...
View ArticleJayne County (1947 - ) Part I: Atlanta
Part I: AtlantaPart II: New York CityPart III: London and BerlinWayne Rogers grew up in the small town of Dallas, Georgia. The family was originally Baptist, but became Methodist after moving to a...
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Jayne County (1947 - ) Part II: New York City
Part I: AtlantaPart II: New York CityPart III: London and BerlinAfter a spell living at the YMCA, Wayne met the aspiring photographer Leee Childers (1945 - 2014) who invited him to share a coldwater...
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Jayne County (1947 - ) Part III: London and Berlin
Part I: AtlantaPart II: New York CityPart III: London and BerlinWayne debuted at London's Roxy in March 1977, and renamed the band to The Electric Chairs. New Musical Express journalist Julie Burchill...
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Penny Whetton (1958 - ) climate scientist
Peter Whetton was born in Melbourne, and did a BA in physics and a PhD, 1986, in climate variability at Melbourne University, where he met Janet Rice and they married. They had two sons. After a few...
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Toupie Lowther (1874 – 1944) Part I: sporting champion and war service
Part I: sporting champion and war servicePart II: The Well of LonelinessMay Lowther, her elder sister Aimée (1869-1935) and elder brother Claude (1870-1929) were scions of the Lowther dynasty, which...
View ArticleToupie Lowther (1874 – 1944) Part II: The Well of Loneliness.
Part I: sporting champion and war servicePart II: The Well of Loneliness.Also in 1926, Radclyffe Hall wrote a short story, "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself", although it was not published until 1934. It drew...
View ArticleZanzibar 1860
General Christopher Rigby, the best linguist in the British Army, was the British Consul in Zanzibar in 1860. In paragraph 33 of his Report on the Zanzibar Dominion of that year he wrote (probably...
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Sports, Gender and Trans - Part 1: to 1945
Part 1: to 1945 Part 2: the Cold WarPart 3: recent developmentsThe first version of this three-part chronology was published in August 2012. Since then I have become aware of many persons who were...
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