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Homeogender surgery
There is a type of are some trans woman who have lots of surgeries as part of their transitions. Some examples are Allanah Star (60+ surgeries), Gia Darling (45+), Fulvia Siguas Sandoval (64+ and in...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby
Princton was an all-male university in 1916 and for decades afterwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald was in the Triangle Club which put on plays. He posed for a publicity photo for a production of The Evil...
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Catherine Bruce, New York 1968
Diane Arbus is famous for her photographs of transvestites, although she didn't really take that many such photographs. Her transvestites are rarely given names, and only a few of them look as if they...
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Waleria Fernanda Torres (1950 - ) chemical engineer, sexologist
Torres was raised in São Paulo. He graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1972 from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo. He married twice and had children in both marriages. He lectured...
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Kayo Satoh 佐藤佳代 (1988 - ) model, gamer, television actor
Satoh, from Aichi, Japan, started on female hormones at age 15. She ran away after high school.She found work in a women's clothing retailer, where she was discovered by a fashion scout. She did...
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Jean Lessenich (1942 - ) Germany
Lessenich, from Remagen, was educated in graphic design in Cologne. After a failed marriage and a period as a prostitute, she completed transition in 1973 with surgery from Dr Burou in Casablanca.This...
View ArticleJacqueline Galiaci (194? - ) 1st Brazilian to have gender surgery
Jacqueline is the first known Brazilian to have transgender surgery, which she had from Dr Burou in Casablanca in 1969. This was two years before the first surgery in Brazil, that on Waldirene Nogueir...
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Hoax biographies
Hoax biographies can be considered a genre, although those that are most successful are accepted at face value and not designated hoaxes.The concept of hoax does not have clear boundaries, nor is there...
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kaitlyn Bogas (1959 - ) chef
Ken Bogas was raised in Vancouver. By age 5 he was dressing in his sisters' clothes, wondering why his body was different, and feeling left out when mother made dresses for the others. He set a...
View ArticleThe strange case of Phyllis Grosskurth and Eonism
Phyllis Grosskurth (1924 – ) spent most of her life in the English department at the University of Toronto. She is best known for a series of biographies of sexologists: John Addington Symonds,...
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Tonë Bikaj (1901 – 1971) farm worker, partisan, musician
The marriage of Lule Bikaj to Katerinë, both of the Catholic Kelmëndi tribe of northern Albania, was delayed 12 years when Bikaj was arrested for his part in the struggle for independence from the...
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Kristen Paget (197? - ) software security consultant
Paget, from the UK, is a software security consultant working in the US.In August 2002, Chris Paget published a paper on a design flaw in Windows XP, NT4.0 and 2000 which permitted privilege escalation...
View ArticleThe UK Honours system
The Order of the British Empire is multi-faced creation given more often to our enemies than to gender variant people. However there is a short and interesting list of those who have received such...
View ArticleDiane Wells (1953 - ) trustfunder
Constance (1922 - 2007) was born in South Africa. Her father, a mining engineer who made his money in the diamond business, set up a trust fund for her. She moved to New York aged 19, married Joseph...
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Max Drenth (1963 - ) novelist, philosopher.
Marjolijn Drenth was born in Coevorden, Netherlands. Because her grandfather had worked in a German Army camp in the Second World War, the family was for a long time stateless.Drenth published several...
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Norah Vincent (196? - ) journalist.
Norah grew up in Detroit, the only daughter of Ford Motor Company attorney Robert Vincent and minor actress Juliet Randall (whose biggest gig was The Beachcombers, 1973-6). Norah was a tomboy with an...
View ArticleCanadian (auto)biographies
The bibliography page (see at the top of this blog) does not contain (auto)biographies.This is the start of an occasional series by country or area that will contribute to and finally become a...
View ArticleEast New Jersey in the 1960s
Vito Russo, who would later write the ground-breaking The Celluloid Closet, was raised in East Harlem, Manhattan. In 1961 when he was 15, to his chagrin, his parents bought a house in Lodi, New...
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Alicia Liu/ Lui Xun' Ai 刘熏爱 (1986 - ) model.
Lui Zihua, in Taiwan, transitioned to Xun'Ai at age 18 with surgery paid for by her then boyfriend.As Alice Liu she participated in 2006 in a fashion contest on Taiwan TVBS. In 2008 she became a...
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