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Rikki Swin (1947 - ) chemical engineer, executive

Swin was born in Chicago, and did a degree in chemical engineering. Swin became an expert in polymer construction and design, and at 23 founded Tec Air, Inc. in Willow Springs. Illinois. Swin conceived...

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Shoshanna Gillick (1943 - 1999) psychiatrist

Marvin Gillick was trained as a psychiatrist at Georgetown University, and had board certifications in General Psychiatry, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He served as a Lieutenant...

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Gloria Greaves (1933–) sex worker

Gloria Robinson completed surgical transition in the early 1960s, became the wife of Brian Greaves, and had for 20 years she had been recognised as a female for national insurance purposes.In 1982...

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Giorgia O’Brien (1928 - 2004) singer, actor.

Giorgio Montana, born in Palermo, Sicily, was keen on singing and spent eight years in amateur choirs. He had the unusual ability to switch between baritone and soprano. He was almost accepted at the...

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Tony Barreto-Neto (1945 - ) musician, activist, cop.

Barreto-Neto, raised in Tampa, Florida, knew he was a boy by age 5.After puberty, Barreto-Neto ran off to New Orleans where, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a lesbian, s/he did a degree at Louisiana...

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20 trans in the US who changed things by example and/or achievement

Buzzfeed, a days ago published “24 Americans Who Changed The Way We Think About Transgender Rights”.See also Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia/NZ, Americans in Europe, Europeans in the Americas....

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Martina Castellana (196?–) dermatologist, councillor

Michele Castellana grew to 1.9 m (6'2") and qualified as a dermatologist, and worked in the hospitals of Salerno. For a while s/he was the androgynous Micha. Then she was Martina.In 2009, after twenty...

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13 trans in Canada who changed things by example and/or achievement

See also US, UK, France, Germany, Australia/NZ, Americans in Europe, Europeans in the Americas. Qa'nqon Ka'mek Klau'la (? – 1837) Kutanai two-spirit person and prophet who led a First Nation uprising...

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Walter L. Williams (1948–) anthropologist.

Walter Lee Williams completed a PhD in History and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He became Professor of Anthropology, History and Gender Studies at the University of...

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20 trans Americans who found their destiny in Europe

See also US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia/NZ,Europeans in the Americas. Ella Zoyara (1840 – 1879) from St Louis, a circus equestrian who entranced counts and kings.  GVWW  Jane Heap...

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Vasil Popovici (1815 – 1905) monk.

Vasil Popovici spent most of his life as a monk in the Orthodox Monastery at Țibucani in north east Romania. Revered as a mystic, it was only at his death that he was discovered to be female-bodied....

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Marcella Di Folco (1943 - 2010) film actor, activist, councillor

Marcello was raised in Rome. After school he worked as a porter at the Hotel Rivoli, and then from 1965 at the Piper Club.In 1969 Di Folco had to deliver a letter to the Cinecitta film studios, where...

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The Cabin Inn, Chicago

The (Cozy) Cabin Inn opened in 1933 at 3119 Cottage Grove Avenue in Bronzeville, in Chicago's South Side, at the southern side of the Century of Progress fairgrounds. Impersonator Gilda Gray was the...

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18 trans persons in Italy who changed things by example and/or achievement

Sporus (? - 69) after Nero killed his wife Poppaea, he had his slave Sporus castrated and dressed like her. Sporus was at Nero's death and became the consort of his successor....

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Eric Gilbert Oakley (1916 - ?) female impersonator, hack writer.

According to the author page in Man into woman, Eric Gilbert Oakley was the son of T. Gilbert Oakley (? - 1953) of the National Association for Mental Health, Chief Consultant to the Pelman Institute...

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Michael Wallent (1969 - ) IT executive

Michael Wallent was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and studied engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He married a woman, and moved to Seattle to join Microsoft in 1996 and advanced...

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Titica (1987–) singer

Titica, born and raised in Luanda, was trained in ballet. However she was rejected by her family, mocked on the street and beaten by strangers. She had breast implants in Brazil in 2008.She was first...

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Emmon Bodfish (1943 – 1999) druid, plumber, investment advisor

Originally from Ohio, Emmon Bodfish was active in the Reformed Druids of North America. He produced the Druid Missal-Any Magazine 1983-1991, some of which was reprinted in A Reformed Druid Anthology,...

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Mario Martino (1938 - ) nun, nurse, activist.

Angela was born to Italian immigrants in the US Midwest. Her father was a macho cop who sometimes beat his wife and child. Angela was criticized for being too much like her father, especially after her...

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Nana, Place Blanche , Paris circa 1960

Paris 1960 during the Franco-Algerian War.   The famous transsexuals were at Le Carousel and Chez Madame Arthur where April Ashley, Coccinelle, Bambi, Amanda Lear etc, were appearing.   Obviously not...

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