Kate Stone (197? - ) research scientist
Stone was born in Cheshire, with a father who was a continent-hopping engineer. This led to learning experiences in disparate cultures, and short spells in all sorts of schools. Leaving school having...
View ArticleAsha Devi (1952 - 2013 ) mayor.
Amarnath Yadav was the youngest of four brothers and three sisters, and was discarded by her parents. She was taken in by hijraSamaj, and took the name Asha Devi. While only semi-literate, she ran in...
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31 trans persons in Spain/Spanish America who changed things by example or...
Catalino De Erauso (1592 – 1650) nun, soldier, adventurer. EN.WIKIPEDIA Fernando Mackenzie (1836 - ?) Madrid policeman. GVWWMaria Salomé Rodríguez Tripiona (1880 - ?) Spanish torera. GVWWLuís Fernando...
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Billie Dodson (1876 - 1914) female impersonator, milliner
Billie Dodson was raised in the town of El Monte, California which was founded during the 1849 gold rush and is today part Los Angeles County. From the time of his birth his mother was an invalid. He...
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Fran Bennett (1954–) celebrity DJ
Frank grew up in an 11th-floor apartment in Manhattan, his father the songwriter, Johnny Lehman, his mother the 1940s hit singer Evelyn Knight. At age 11 he was tagging along with his elder brother,...
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Tobi Marsh (1938 – 2012) performer
John Dale Harvey was raised in Greeneville, Tennessee until age 12 when his family moved to Cincinnati.As a teenager he started working as a amateur female impersonator, and at 19 was a member of the...
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Wu Mingen 吳明恩 (1962 - ) infomercials moderator, auctioneer.
Wu's father was Wu Zheng Yan, a mayor in Qingshui District 清水區, Taichung City, Taiwan. Wu was educated at the National Shimizu High School and then in 1981 Wu consulted with Dr Zhang Qizhong who sent...
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Ramon Te Wake (1976 - ) musician, broadcaster.
Te Wake, a Māori, was raised in Ascot Park outside Wellington. She moved to Wellington in the early 1990s and then to Auckland.She toured New Zealand in the R&B/Funk band Pure Funk in 1995-6. She...
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Victoria Fenández (1932–) performer
Victor Fernández was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. His father persistently denied that such an effeminate child could be his.Victor moved to New York soon after high school, where she became Vicky...
View ArticleTrans rights are Human rights
Produced by the Asia-Pacific Transgender Network (ATPN) in partnership with UNAIDS.
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Veronica Paris Baxter (1975 – 2009).
Veronica, an aboriginal from Cunnamulla county, in the south-west of Queensland, had been living as a woman since 1994 when she was 19.In March 2009, three days after the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi...
View ArticleShonna (1947–) performer, travel agent, housewife
Shonna was raised in Singapore, and had two younger sisters. Father was a dentist who often beat his wife and put her in the hospital several times. Grandmother dressed Shonna as female, and arranged...
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Carl-Philip Öfverström (1960 - ) musician.
Öfverström was born in Stockholm. At age 17 using the name Cris Owen, Öfverström had a breakthrough album, Here I Am, and went on to a career – largely in Finland – as songwriter, arranger, producer,...
View ArticleAnne-Daphné Henry (1950-2000) army captain.
Jean Michel Henry served as a captain in the Swiss Army.Jean transitioned to Anne in 1992 and in 1994 won a landmark court case in which the Federal Court ordered her insurance company to reimburse the...
View ArticleLeslie Phillips (194?–) lawyer.
Ralph Plotkin was a law student in Philadelphia when in 1969 he met and married Tamara. He graduated and became a lawyer, while Tamara pursued a career in urban planning. They purchased a house...
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L.S. (1889 - ?) model
L.S. was an attractive woman who worked as a fashion model in Paris. In 1909, aged 20, she was engaged to be married. She was bothered by apparent tumours in her labia majora and attended the Hôpital...
View ArticleJessica Diana Bussert (1965 - ) network specialist, photographer.
Joshua Bussert grew up in the US Mid-west. He married his girlfriend at 18 when she became pregnant. In 1985 he studied data processing at Vincennes University, Indiana. He was also seeing a counselor...
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Louise Hannon (1962–) business development manager, photographer.
Hannon was raised in Dublin. In the five years up to 2006, Hannon, self-employed, had worked as a business development manager at First Direct Logistics Ltd, and broke up with wife and children.In...
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Riki Anne Wilchins (1952 - ) computing, activist.
(S/he and hir are Riki's preferred pronouns.)Wilchins grew up in Cincinnati, his father a surgeon, and transitioned to Riki Anne in the late 1970s. S/he did a bachelors degree in Psychology &...
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Christina Jwar (1901 - 1986 ) nurse
For 65 years Christina Jwar was a nurse to the black community in Ficksburg, Orange Free State (now Free State) on the border of Lesotho. She was affectionately known as Me Jwar (Mother Jwar). At the...
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