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Sam Winter (1955 - ) academic
Sam Winter did a BSC in Psychology at the University of Southampton in 1973, a post-graduate certificate in Education at Coventry College of Education, 1974, and an M.Ed at the University of Exeter in...
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Angelina Mead King (1980–) scion of motel business, car racer.
Ian King was the son of Archimedes King (1953 - 2015), the owner of the Victoria Court chain of motels in the Philippines, himself the son of Angelo King (1927 - ), a Chinese-Filipino who established...
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Aurora (1873? - ?) hairdresser, sex worker
Aurora arrived in Buenos Aires, from Paraguay, in the late 1890s. He quickly drifted into prostitution, however was arrested only when found brawling in cafes, or when dressed as a female. He was...
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Caitlin R Kiernan (1964–) novelist
Kiernan started life as Kenneth R Wright in Dublin, and a few years later moved to Leeds outside Birmingham, Alabama, with his mother, Susan Ramsey Cleveland. Susan, an avid reader, introduced Wright...
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The first Canadian surgical transsexual?
By some accounts trans history in Canada starts in 1962 when Jackie Shane was doing her gender ambiguous act at Toronto's Sapphire Tavern; legal secretary Dianna Boileau was arrested and outed after...
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Charlotte McLeod (1925-) a bookkeeper goes to Copenhagen
Part 1: Youth and CopenhagenPart II: fame and marriageCharles McLeod Jr., the only child of a Ford Motors salesman, was born in Nashville and raised in Dyersburg, Tennessee. The parents divorced when...
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Charlotte McLeod (1925-) Part II: fame and marriage
Part 1: Youth and CopenhagenPart II: fame and marriageCharlotte was offered night-club appearances. A reporter, who worked at the National Press Club and normally wrote religious articles, proposed to...
View ArticleDavid William Foerster (1933 - ) and the Oklahoma Gender Identity Foundation
David William Foerster was raised in Oklahoma. He married in 1957, and they had three sons. Foerster qualified as a plastic surgeon. As early as 1962 Dr Foerster pioneered a method of phalloplasty for...
View Articlepenile-inversion vaginoplasty in 1903
The official history of penile-inversion vaginoplasty is that Harold Gillies& Ralph Millard pioneered the use of of penile skin-flap in 1951, but that their method was not penile-inversion...
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Timeline of transgender surgery to 1975: Part I 1906 -1965
Part I: 1906 -1965 Part II: 1966 -1975Part III: untruths and unknownsBoth vaginoplasty and phalloplasty were first developed for cis persons: either because the organ was missing at birth (agenesis) or...
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Timeline of surgery: Part II: 1966 -1975
Part I: 1906 -1965Part II: 1966 -1975Part III: untruths and unknowns 1966 Ricardo San Martin, Buenos AiresSan Martin was convicted of assault. The patient's consent was considered invalid because of...
View ArticleTransgender Surgery III: untruths and unknowns
Part I: 1906 -1965Part II: 1966 -1975Part III: untruths and unknowns UntruthsThe old discredited statistics that were refuted in Olyslager and Conway, “On the Calculation of the Prevalence of...
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Rosita de la Plata (187? - ? ) female impersonator
In the 1890s and the first few years of the 20th century, it was a lot more difficult to proceed down the transgender path. Many settled just for stage performance. The person described here, a...
View ArticleDaniel Burghammer (157?–?) soldier, blacksmith
In 1594 Daniel Burghammer joined the Austrian army, and also married. He served in Hungary and in the Netherlands. He was also a blacksmith. In 1601, he was serving in the squadron of Captain Laymann...
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Julia Doulman (1963 - ) farmer, car racer, bus driver
Paul Doulman grew up in Bathurst, New South Wales, a farming community known for the Mount Panorama motor racing circuit. Like most males in Bathurst he became involved in the car-racing culture. He...
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Evan Burtt (1900-?) servant
Eva Mary Burtt, a domestic servant in Tisbury, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, came to doubt her sex in the late 1920s. Burtt wrote to the Salvation Army in London seeking help. This led to an examination...
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Peter Farrer (1926 - 2017) tax inspector, trans historian
Peter Farrer’s father was a Church of England vicar and schoolmaster who lived in various parishes, and during the Second World War had a parish in the Isle of Man, where Peter and his twin sister...
View ArticleThomas de Croismare (1779-1847) soldier, book-keeper, civil servant, musician
Thomas de Croismare was a lieutenant with Napoleon’s army at the Battle of Borodino 1812 outside Moscow (Bataille de la Moskova) the deadliest day of the Napoleonic Wars. He was also present when...
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La Bella Otero (187?–?) performer, sex worker
Luis D, from Madrid, sometimes said that he became homosexual after being seduced by a neighbour. On arrival in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century, she took the name La Bella Otero after the...
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Diana Sacayán (1975 – 2015) activist.
Amancay Diana Sacayán, one of 16 siblings of aboriginal Diaguita descent, was born in Tucumán in northwest Argentina at a time of a state emergency in the province declared by President Isabel Perón....
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