Arlette-Irène Leber (1912 - ?) first Swiss gender surgery
Arnold-Lèon Leber was Swiss although born in Germany. Leber’s father disappeared during the Great War, and was replaced by a step-father given to drunkenness who in turn disappeared when Leber was 11....
View ArticleCharles Wolf (? – 1965) sex-change surgeon
Charles Wolf was a prominent surgeon in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the famed watch-making town in the canton of Neuchâtel, in French-speaking Switzerland. In 1941 he received a referral from a Geneva...
View ArticleRoberta Perkins (1940 – 2018) sociologist, activist
Perkins did a dissertation on transvestism and transsexuality at Macquarie University in Sydney in 1981 – one the very first by an openly trans woman. She was also one of the members of the newly...
View ArticleTransgender Surgery Addendum – July 2018
The full tale is still not told. These items will be added to the full timeline, and are published here so that they will be noticed.Netherlands, Arnheim Municipal Hospital 1959 – plastic surgeon...
View ArticleCamilla Rose Waters (1957 - ) musician, clown, social worker
Steve John Kern was born in Santa Rosa, California, and raised the youngest in a family of six kids, all of whom played musical instruments. Steve sang, and learned to play trumpet, trombone, French...
View ArticleDeena Kaye Rose (1943 - ) musician
Dick Feller was born and raised in Missouri. At 12 he had his first guitar, and at 15 played with a local band. In 1964 he tried his luck in the Los Angeles music scene. In 1966 he moved to Nashville:...
View ArticleLynn Edward Benton (1962 - ) cop, convicted of murder
Lynne Irene Benton had been a cop in the small town of Gladstone, south of Portland, Oregon, and nearby towns since 1987. She had become a detective in 1993, the same year that she married a Brazilian...
View ArticleA miscellany of unknowns
The Garden of Allah, a gay-owned cabaret was open in Seattle 1946-56. It featured mainly female impersonation, though some male impersonators also performed.Bill Plant took the name Peewee Nattajon in...
View ArticleJackie Starr (1915 – 198?) performer
Jack Starr grew up on a farm in the US Midwest. His parents encouraged his desire to be an actor, and he studied voice, acting and classical ballet. His elder sister was dressing him in female clothing...
View ArticleA BBC2 discussion from 4 June 1973 with Della Aleksander
This program was part of a series called Open Door that launched in April 1973. Championed by the BBC’s director of programmes at the time, David Attenborough, the series provided a platform for...
View ArticleHarry Stokes (1799 – 1859) master bricklayer, publican
Stokes was born and raised in Doncaster, the child of a bricklayer. He ran away, some say at age 8, and did an apprenticeship with a bricksetter in Whitby. He married his first wife in either the Old...
View ArticleHelen Savage (1955 - ) vicar, archeologist, wine columnist
Part I: LifePart II: PhD thesisMark Savage was born in Barrow, Cumbria, one of three children of a Baptist minister, and was raised in various parts of Lancashire. Despite a happy family home, Mark was...
View ArticleDean Kotula (1958–) photographer, antiques dealer
Kotula was born in the US Midwest in a family of six girls and one boy, both parents school teachers. Kotula was refusing dresses by the age of six. Fortunately, unlike his elder siblings, Kotula did...
View ArticleFrancis Blair (1913–?) performer
Charles Schultz was born in West Seattle. By early teenage, Schultz had acquired a trunk full of female clothing, and often rode on the city streetcars where she passed easily. She got work at the...
View ArticleHarry Allen (1882 – 1922) musician, bartender, barber
Nell Pickerell was raised in Seattle. At age 16 Pickerell gave birth to a child by a father who was not recorded. Pickerell had already inclined to masculine interests and dress, and now adopted them...
View ArticleStuart Lorimer on the Charing Cross GIC
Articles on the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic (GIC)Part I: 1818-1982Part II: 1983-nowPart III. AddendumPart IV. Stuart LorimerStuart Lorimer (born late 1960s) qualified as a doctor at Aberdeen...
View ArticleOn Reading Christine Burns’ History of Trans Britain: Introduction
Part I: IntroductionPart II: 1950-1980 Part III: 1980-2004 Reading list for English trans history. IntroductionChristine Burns. “Introduction”. In Christine Burns (ed) Trans Britain: Our Journey from...
View ArticleOn Reading Christine Burns. Part II: 1950-1980
Part I: IntroductionPart II: 1950-1980Part III: 1980-2004Reading list for English trans history. Is There Anyone Else Like MeChristine Burns. “Is There Anyone Else Like Me”. In Christine Burns (ed)...
View ArticleOn Reading Christine Burns. Part III
Part I: IntroductionPart II: 1950-1980Part III: 1980-2004Annotated reading list for English trans history.1980-2004: A Question of Human RightsChristine Burns. “A Question of Human Rights”. “The...
View ArticleAnnotated reading list for English trans history.
Bram Stoker. Famous imposters. Strurgis & Walton, 1910. EN.Wikipedia. Yes, that Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. Today we would object to trans persons being included in a book on imposters, but...
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