A number of noted individuals are or were transgendered.
Transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transmen and transwomen, who may identify themselves as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, androgynouscross-dressers or transvestites, drag queens, drag kings or those intersexual people whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned; or people who use similar terms to describe themselves. See those pages for an explanation of these terms. People on the list have been described according to their self-identification. This article is not sorted by transgender behaviour.
Regarding historical persons, please also note that for individuals at least until the beginning of the 20th century, there were no names for transgender behaviour, and therefore we have no statements that are a clear documentation for their reasons to behave the way they did; most of the time, we have no statements by themselves at all. All we can say is that by today's standards, these people or their behaviour would be considered transgendered.
Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.
Lili Elbe, Danish transsexual, one of the first women to undergo a crude form of sexual reassignment surgery, through five operations which were completed by 1930. Fifteen months after her final surgery, she either died from complications or faked her own death to avoid the media attention. She is the subject of the 1933 book Man Into Woman, although it is likely she was never biologically male, but rather born intersexual , supposedy with rudimentary ovaries which would conflict with the speculative diagnosis of Klinefelter's Syndrome
Bella Evangelista, also known as Elvys Perez, drag performer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. [2] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18168-2003Aug20.html)
It is often difficult to construe the gender and sexual identity of pre-modern individuals. In many societies, those whom Western society might consider homosexual or bisexual are or were considered transgendered. Therefore, see also List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual people.
Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has both been depicted as male and female, and, according to the Lotus Sutra, has the ability to change form in order to help people.
Heracles, was dressed as a woman when enslaved by Omphale
James Barry, surgeon who masqueraded as a man throughout her life in order to be able to practice medicine
Pope Paul II, Catholic pope known to have worn women's clothes and was nicknamed "Our Lady of Pity"
Deborah Sampson, 18th century Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as male to serve in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War
In Eastern Orthodoxy, Venerable Onuphrius is supposed to had been a virtuous young girl who, in order not to lose her virginity to a persistent suitor, had her wish to become a man granted by divine intervention.
Azure C., a transsexual model on the Americansoap operaThe City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.
Myra Breckinridge, transsexual character in two best-selling novels by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge and Myron, and a a well-known film.
Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular Britishsoap operaCoronation Street. First transsexual portrayed on British soaps, since 1998. Unusually for a fictional portrayal of a transgender person, the character is played by a cisgendered (non-transgendered) woman.
Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Books
Wheelwright, Julie (1989). Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed As Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. London: Pandora Books. ISBN 0-04-440494-8
Likewise, groups that have been more closeted, including transsexuals and transgenderedpeople, are finding their voice and appearing more often in treatment to work on identity and relationship concerns.
In her work with transgenderedpeople, New York City private practitioner and gender expert Katherine Rachlin, PhD, notes that transgenderedpeople struggle not so much with who they are as with finding ways to fit into a society that doesn't understand them.
She says that transgenderedpeople, who do not identify as either male or female, sometimes work on accepting a fluid gender identity.
Transgender is generally used as an overarching, general term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving full or partial tendancies towards that of the opposite gender.
Transmen or trans men are transsexual or transgenderedpeople who were assigned female gender at birth (or, in some rare cases of intersexuality, later) and who feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves.
Transwomen or trans women are transsexual or transgenderedpeople who were assigned male sex at birth (or, in some cases of intersexuality, later) and feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves.
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