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The other Harry Benjamin
In today's Gender Trender Gallus Mag claims that the endocrinologist Harry Benjamin published a book in 1929 called Better Sight Without Glasses. The book is online at...
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20 trans persons in Germany/Austria/Switzerland who changed things by example...
See also US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Australia/NZ, Americans in Europe, Europeans in the Americas, Africa. Emil Vacano (1840 – 1892) circus equestrian as Signora Sangumeta, and later a novelist....
View ArticleGeorge Miller (1850 – 1928) tightrope performer, railroad worker
George Miller was best known a tight rope performer from the age of 18. From 1871 he was with the newly formed P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome.In later years...
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Vern Leroy Bullough (1928 – 2006). Historian and sexologist.
Original February 2008. Revised September 2013. Vern Bullough was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He and his high-school sweetheart, Bonnie Uckerman (1927 - 1996), left the Mormon Church as...
View ArticleEleanor Schuler (1936 - ) chemical engineer, spy, entrepreneur
John Huminik, Jr was born and raised in Washington, DC by immigrants from the Soviet Union. He married, at 20, the only women he ever dated, and they had four children.He was, at 23, vice-president of...
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Nzinga Mbandi (1583 - 1663) queen.
Nzinga was the favourite daughter of her father Kiluanji, the ngola (chief or king) of the Ndongo. When her brother Mbande deposed their father, he also had Nzinga's child murdered, and she fled.In the...
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27 trans persons in France/French Belgium/French Africa who changed things by...
See also US, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, Australia/NZ, Americans in Europe, Europeans in the Americas, Africa. A special mention of Joseph Doucé (1945 – 1990), though not trans himself, murdered by...
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Jasmine Goode (1976–) burglar, inmate
Darren Goode was born in Rhyl, Denbighshire. "Then, on my seventh birthday, I'd been so excited about the Barbie doll I'd asked for - but instead I'd got a teddy bear wearing an army uniform. I'd look...
View ArticleJennifer N. Pritzker (1951 - ) scion of wealth, military officer
James Pritzker was born into the Chicago plutocratic family that owns the Hyatt Hotel chain, and many other corporations. Pritzker married and they had three children.In 1974 Pritzker joined the US...
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Jeanne Hoff (1938 – ) psychiatrist
Eugene Hoff was born in in St Louis. He did an MD at Columbia University, College of Physicians And Surgeons 1963 followed by a doctorate in solid state chemistry at University College, London (where...
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Nana (1939 - ) sex worker, performer. housewife, Place Blanche , Paris circa...
I previously, last month, featured the photographs of Nana. It was pointed out that the 2011 edition of Christer Strömholm (1918 - 2002)'s photographs contains an interview of Nana by Hélène Hazera....
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Adela Vasquez (1958–) sex worker, performer
Jorge Vasquez was born during the Cuban Revolution to a single mother, and raised by his grandparents in Camagüey.He was sexually active with men early, and especially when he was sent to a boarding...
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Gayle Sherman (1940 - ) performer.
Original September 2010; revised September 2013. My original version was based simply on a reading of Gayle's autobiography. Since then more information has emerged, particularly in the Chicago...
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Rose Venkatesan ரோஸ் வெங்கடேசன் (1980 – ) engineer, broadcaster, filmmaker.
Ramesh was raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and graduated in mechanical engineering at Sathyabama Engineering College in 2001, and then completed a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from...
View ArticleTadhg MacCrossan (1958 - ) druid.
Cross was raised in Calgary, New Orleans and then Dallas. Cross grew up to become a woman, Teresa Cross.In her 20s Teresa was introduced to the "Irish Literary Renaissance" of the early twentieth...
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Geraldine Portica (189? - ?) chamber maid.
“Geraldine Portica — This is not a girl, but a boy, who was reared by his mother as a girl and has always dressed as a girl and went to school as a girl and has never associated with any one else but...
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Leo Wollman (1914 – 1998) gynecologist, hypnotist, sexologist.
Original March 2007; revised October 2013.Leo Wollman lived almost his entire life on Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island, Brooklyn, except for his medical education in Edinburgh. He married in 1936, and he...
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Lee Si-yeon 이시연 (1979 - ) model, actress.
Lee dae-hak was educated at the Daejeon University Fashion Design Department, and first made a name as a male model. He was known for a feminine appearance and wearing women's clothing on the catwalk –...
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Jo Clifford (1949–) playwright
John Clifford was born in Stoke-on-Trent. His mum died when he was young, and he was sent to a boarding school in Bristol that was sports orientated and he never fitted in, except for the school plays,...
View ArticleIOS Pink List 2013
The Independent on Sunday Pink List of 101 LGBT persons who made a difference is just published. Trans persons included:1. Paris Lees, Editor META magazine.8. Jackie Green who entered the Miss...
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