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The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender identity or behaviour. Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... Image File history File links Transgender_Pride_flag. ... Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This articles is about cross-dressing in general, that is the act of wearing the clothing of another gender for any reason. ... A drag king performance troupe Drag kings are female bodied or identified performance artists who dress in masculine drag as part of their routine. ... Drag queens Luc DArcy and Jerry Cyr and friend at Montreals 2003 Divers/Cité pride parade. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up Transsexualism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... LGBT history refers to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cultures around the world, dating back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality within ancient civilizations. ... Transphobia refers to various kinds of aversions towards transsexuality and transsexual or transgendered people, often taking the form of refusal to accept a persons expression of their internal gender identity (See Phobia - terms indicating prejudice or class discrimination). ... Homosexuality and transgender are two separate concepts. ... Gynephilia (or gynophilia) (From Greek gunē, women, + -philia, love) is the romantic and/or sexual attraction to adult females, and its counterpart androphilia (from Greek andro-, male, + -philia, love) is attraction to adult males. ... Transsexual people are those who establish a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their birth Gender. ... Transgender and Transexual people may face difficulty when trying to access amenities, such as toilets and change rooms, when presenting as their chosen gender // From Main Article: Toilet Sex-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgendered or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or... Transgender is a very complex topic, where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. ... This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films. ...

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Living individuals

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B Courtney Acts Idol publicity shot. ... Australian Idol is the Australian version of the British TV hit show Pop Idol. ... Calpernia Sarah Addams (born 20 February 1971) is an American author, actress and activist in the transgender community. ... Cover for the video release of the motion picture National Lampoon Presents Lost Reality Transsexual performer Allenina (also known as Helen Wong) was born in Guizhou, China, on October 8, 1973, and grew up in Hong Kong. ... Nadia Almada (born January 28, 1977) is a Portuguese woman, best-known for being the first transexual winner of the reality show Big Brother UK, in 2004. ... Big Brother is a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. ... Charlie Anders is the author of Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press 2005) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of Shes Such A Geek (Seal Press 2006). ... Enza Supermodel Anderson is a Canadian drag queen who has become famous in Canada for his quixotic political campaigns, which are usually based around the slogan 100% Great Legs. ... Angel makes an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. ... Alexis Arquette (born on January 1, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a transgendered American actress, musician, L.A. area underground cartoonist, and drag performer who is part of a family of actors including siblings Patricia, David, Richmond, and Rosanna Arquette, her father Lewis Arquette and her grandfather Cliff Arquette. ... Nina Arsenault is a Canadian transsexual columnist, freelance writer and sex-trade worker. ... April Ashley (born April 25, 1935, as George Jamieson) is a British model and actress. ... Estelle Asmodelle Estelle Asmodelle (born April 22, 1964), previously commonly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is an Australian model, belly dancer, writer and actress. ...

C Image:Bagger99. ... Greg Norman on the 18th tee at St Andrews. ... Dana Baitz is a Toronto-based popular musician and musicologist. ... Ben A. Barres M.D., Ph. ... Georgina Beyer addresses the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights Georgina Beyer (b 1957) is the worlds first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, currently a list MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand. ... Alexandra Scott Billings is an American transsexual actress. ... Joan Jett Blakk is the drag persona of performer Terence Smith. ... Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein and Adam Blaustein, born October 9, 1960) is a transgender voice actor born in Long Island, New York, United States. ... James Stephen George (J.S.G.) Boggs is an American artist best known for his hand-drawn, one-sided copies of US banknotes. ... Sister Boom-Boom, the drag persona of Jack Fertig, is one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. ... Sylvia Boots as adult film star transsexual, was born in Cuba, of Hispanic ethnicity. ... Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. ... Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization. ... Ana Paula Botelho in Teen Trannies Goin Wild Ana Paula Botelho is a transwoman and an adult film star. ... Jennifer Finney Boylan (born 22 June 1958) is an American author and professor at Colby College. ... Following is a list of the 22 housemates that participated in the seventh series of Big Brother UK, in alphabetical order. ... Big Brother UK series 7, is currently in broadcast in the United Kingdom as part of the Big Brother reality television series. ... Sara Davis Buechner (born David Buechner, 1964[1]) is a transsexual American concert pianist and educator. ... Publicity photo of The Lady Bunny. ... Charles Busch is an actor and writer who has appeared in many off-Broadway productions. ...

D Meryn Cadell is a Canadian singer, writer and performance artist. ... Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about womens sexuality and of erotic fiction, nonfiction essays, and poetry. ... Loren Cameron (born 1959) is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. ... Wendy Carlos (November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... The Lady Chablis The Lady Chablis and John Cusack in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil The Lady Chablis, born Benjamin Edward Knox in 1957, is a full-time transvestite, preoperative transexual, and drag queen. ... Angela Clayton MBE, is a campaigner for the rights of transsexual people. ... Roberta Close (stage name for Roberta Gambine Moreira) was born on 7 December 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. ... Lynn Conway is a U.S. computer scientist and inventor. ... Cossey on the cover of her 1982 autobiography, Tula: I am a Woman Caroline Tula Cossey (born August 31, 1954, in Brooke, Norfolk), is an English actor. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond 007 is a fictional British agent [1] created in 1952 by writer Ian Fleming, featured in several novels and short stories. ... Jayne County, formerly known as Wayne County, is an influential transsexual performer, musician and actress whose career has spanned several decades. ... Born on May 21st, 1921, in Croydon as Robert Cowell On May 15th, 1951 Robert Cowell became Roberta Cowell the United Kingdoms first full surgically altered transsexual. ... Molly Cutpurse is an English transgendered author. ...

E Vaginal Davis on cover of EP. Clarence Dennis Williams, also known as Vaginal Davis or her dominatrix-alter-ego Veronika VIntrest, (born February 23, 1969) is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. ... Cover for Ms. ... Dreuxilla Divine (born January 12, year unspecified) is a famous Puerto Rican drag queen. ... Colin Kennedy Donovan is a (dis)abled queer, transgender, and genderqueer identified anti-racist educator, activist, performer, and writer. ... Michelle Dumaresq is a professional mountain bike competitor from Canada. ...

F Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 - March 7, 1941) was an American actor. ... Bulent Ersoy Bülent Ersoy is a Turkish celebrity, born in 1950. ... Jade Esteban Estrada (born September 17, 1975 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas) is a successful Latin pop singer, comedian, choreographer and actor. ...

  • Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
  • Bibiana Fernández, Spanish transsexual actress, model, performer
  • Chiya Fujino, Japanese writer

G Leslie Feinberg (born 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. ... Bibíana Fernández, also known as Bibí Andersen (February 13, 1954) is a Spanish transsexual actress and model. ... Chiya Fujino, (藤野千夜, Fujino Chiya) (February 27, 1962 -), is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. ...

H Jamison James Green is an internationally respected leader within the transgender movement. ...

I Lauren Charlotte Harries (formerly James Harries), was born in Surrey, England in 1978 and is a disputed (see below) child prodigy who became famous in Britain after appearing on Wogan, Terry Wogans chat show in 1988. ... Lee Kyung-eun (popularly known as Harisu, in Korean hangul: 하리수, hanja: 河莉秀) (born 17 February 1975) is a singer, model and actress from South Korea. ... Jennifer Hiloudaki was born February 21, 1968 in Sitia on the Greek island of Crete. ... Alina María Hernández (born c. ... TV Personality Clover Honey Clover Honey is the en femme persona of Mr. ... Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton, was a Usenet pioneer. ... Bigender (bi+gender) is a tendency to move between masculine and feminine gender-typed behaviour depending on context, expressing a distinctly male persona and a distinctly female persona. ... Based on the vogueing / drag queen / ballroom scene as documented by the film Paris Is Burning, the House of Diabolique emerged in 1996 and soon developed a cult following in New Yorks notoriously fickle underground dance community. ...

  • Dana International, Israeli best female singer, Eurovision 1998 winner,
  • Kim Coco Iwamoto, transgendered woman elected to the Hawaii Board of Education; the highest transgender elected office holder in the United States as of November 2006, according to the media [1]
  • Eddie Izzard, comedian, "executive transvestite"

J Dana International performs at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1972) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. She was... Edward John Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962) is a British cross-dressing stand-up comedian and actor who describes himself as an executive or action transvestite. ...

K Andrea James (born January 16, 1967), (), is an American transsexual woman, film producer, screenwriter, actress, LGBT rights activist, and consumer activist. ... Michelle Josef (born 1954) is a Canadian musician and transgender activist. ...

L Kamikawa Aya (上川あや Kamikawa Aya) is a Tokyo municipal official, the first transsexual person to seek elected office in Japan. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Parinya Kiatbusaba or Parinya Charoenphol (born 1981), more popularly known as Nong Thoom, Nong Toom or Nong Tum, is probably the best-known kathoey (male-to-female transgendered person) in Thailand. ... Kathoey working as Go-Go dancers in Bangkoks Nana Plaza. ... Muaythai (IPA: [/muai32 32/]; Thai: ) (Thai Boxing) is the Thai name for a form of hard martial art practiced in several Southeast Asian countries including Thailand, Cambodia (where it is known as Pradal Serey), Malaysia (where it is known as Tomoi) and as a similar style in Myanmar (called Lethwei... Andreas Krieger (born 20 July 1966 in Berlin as Heidi Krieger) is a former German Shot Putter. ...

M Mado Lamotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Danny La Rue was born on July 26, 1917 (although his official birth year is usually given as 1927) as Daniel Patrick Carroll in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. ... An adult film star, transsexual Lisa Lawrence appeared with Sylvia Boots and other transwomen in Lisa Lawrence’s Birthday Bang (1999), which she wrote and directed. ... Jennifer Leitham is a world renowned musician/bass player. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... Sophia Lamar (born: Enrique Muñoz June 6th 1955) is a transexual night-life celebrity, model and celebrated actress in New York City. ... L.E. Leone (formerly known as Dan Leone) is a writer, author of the Cheap Eats column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and member of the band Eds Redeeming Qualities. ... Stephen Benincasa / Photographed by David LaChapelle Stephen Benincasa, date of birth 10/31/89) is an American transsexual icon who has received attention for her modeling, fashion, partying, and business skills. ... Hedda Lettuce is an American drag queen comedienne and singer who lives and works in New York. ... Miss Shangay Lily (born March 1, 1963) is best known for being Spains first and most famous drag queen. ... Shirley Q. Liquor is a satirical persona created by Long Beach, Mississippi resident, Registered Nurse and ordained Quaker minister, Chuck Knipp. ... Vladimir Luxuria, 2002 Vladimir Luxuria (born Wladimiro Guadagno in Foggia, Apulia June 24, 1965), is an Italian actress, television personality, and politician. ... Back side of Palazzo Montecitorio designed by architect Ernesto Basile. ... Lypsinka (real name: John Epperson) is a New York based drag queen who lip-synchs to meticulously edited show-length soundtracks culled from snippets of outrageous 20th-century female performances in movies and song. ...

N Photo of Transsexual, Christine Mancini Christine Mancini is an American Transsexual who has appeared on countless television programs and won numerous titles including Miss Internatonal 1999. ... Mimi Marks is a transsexual entertainer. ... Sabrina Brini Maxwell is a fictional character played by American actor Ben Sander. ... Deirdre McCloskey (née Donald McCloskey) (1942 - ) is an American economist and professor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Siobhan (pronounced Sha-Vhan) Meow is a transgendered or transsexual person who occasionally guests on the Howard Stern Show and is considered a member of The Wack Pack. ... Wack Packer Beetlejuice The Wack Pack is the name given to a wide assortment of regular guests of the Howard Stern Show. ... Annah Moore is a successful musician, writer and artist currently living in the United States. ... Angela Morley (born March 10, 1924) is a composer and conductor who wrote the theme tune and incidental music for Hancocks Half Hour and also wrote and conducted music for The Goon Show. ... Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris on 2 October 1926, in Clevedon, Somerset, England, but by heritage and adoption Welsh) is a British historian and travel writer. ...


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P Terri OConnell, born J.T. Hayes (born in Corinth, Missouri), is a former racing champion. ... This article is about the sport of stock car racing. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...

R a. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... Dee Palmer (born David Palmer in 1937) is a British arranger and keyboardist best known for her membership in the rock band Jethro Tull. ... Pauline Pantsdown is an Australian satirist, best known for parodying Pauline Hanson, a controversial former member of federal parliament. ... Grayson Perry (born 1960) is an English artist, best known for his ceramics. ... This article is about Charles Pierce, not to be confused with the mathematician and philosopher Charles Peirce. ... Rachel Pollack (born 1945) is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and Tarot expert. ... Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson February 22, 1950) is an English performer, musician, writer and artist. ... Fay Presto is a British close-up magician. ...

S Jennifer Diane Reitz (born December 30, 1959) is the creator of the webcomics Unicorn Jelly, Pastel Defender Heliotrope and To Save Her, and of computer games such as Boppin. She has created computer games and anime-style comics since 1981. ... Renee Richards (born Richard Raskind 1934) is a physician and professional tennis player. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Martine Aliana Rothblatt Ph. ... Transhumanism is an emergent school of speculative philosophy analysing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition. ... Joan E. Roughgarden (b. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

T It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ali Saleem. ... Antonia San Juan is a Spaniard actress, director and script-writer. ... José Sarria (b. ... Lily Savage is a drag act performed by comedian Paul OGrady. ... Erik Schinegger (born 19 June 1948 in Agsdorf, Austria) was the world champion womens downhill skier in 1966 when he was known as Erika Schinegger. In 1967, preparing for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, a medical test by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) determined that Schinegger was chromosomally... Scott Turner Shofield, formerly KT Kilborn, is a genderqueer performer. ... // Big Brother 6 in 2005 was the sixth series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality television show on Channel 4, in which a number of contestants live an isolated existence in a purpose-built house who try to avoid being evicted by public vote, with the aim of... Steven B. Stanton (b. ... // Largo, Florida Cultural Center Largo is the third largest city in Pinellas County, Florida, USA and is part of the Tampa Bay Area. ... Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone) is an academic theorist and artist, currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. ... Margaret Stumpp Margaret Stumpp is a Senior Vice President at Prudential Financial, Inc. ... Jolene Sugarbaker, the trailer park queen. ...

U Terre Thaemlitz is an award-winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. ... Pussy Tourette is an American drag queen from San Francisco. ...

V Miss Understood (real name: Alex Heimberg) is an American drag queen originally from Levittown, New York, who has been based in New York City since the late 1980s. ... Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, particularly well known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout, a white Afrikaner socialite and self-proclaimed political activist, inspired by Australian comedian Barry Humphries character Dame Edna Everage. ...

W Kelly Van der Veer (often known as Kelly Big Brother) is a Dutch former Big Brother contestant, singer and a television personality. ...

X Dr Stephen Whittle OBE (b. ... Holly Woodlawn Holly Woodlawn (born October 26, 1946) was a Warhol superstar, who appeared in his movies Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1972). ... Andy Warhol August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...

Jing Xing is a ballet dancer from the Peoples Republic of China, and current owner of the Shanghai Ballet best know for the fact she is a male to female transsexual. ...

20th and 21st century individuals

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B This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Valerie Arkell-Smith (1895-1960 as Valerie Barker), was a distinguished Great Britain soldier and crossdresser who fought in the WRAF as Colonel Victor Barker. ...

C Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 - July 3, 1998), a. ... A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... EA redirects here. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for up to 3 million deaths annually. ... Stuart Ballet Boy Brady is the current Head Coach of the Brussels Barbarians Rugby Football Club. ... Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872. ... A rugby union scrum. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

D Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval She is the person with the most gender reassignment surgeries in the world is a Peruvian transsexual woman. ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ... Album cover for Coccinelle No 1 EP on President Records. ... John Holder Jr. ... Andy Warhol August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ...

E Candy Darling Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 - March 21, 1974) was a pre-op transsexual Warhol superstar who starred in Andy Warhols films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971). ... Andy Warhol August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. ... The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. ... Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...

  • Ethyl Eichelberger drag performer, actor, performance artist
  • 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. [6]

F Ethyl Eichelberger (July 17, 1945 - August 12, 1990) was an American drag performer, playwright and actor. ... Lili Elbe (1886 - 1931) was the first known recipient of sexual reassignment surgery. ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ... An intersexual or intersex person (or animal of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ... Klinefelters syndrome, 47XXY or XXY syndrome is a condition caused by a chromosome nondisjunction in males; affected individuals have a pair of X sex chromosomes instead of just one and are at additional risk for some medical conditions. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Federal District District of Columbia  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack Evans...

  • Dee Farmer, transgender prison inmate [7] [8]

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J Tyra Hunter (circa 1970 - August 7, 1995) was a 24 year old transsexual woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident. ... A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

K Marsha P. Johnson Marsha P. Johnson was a popular figure in New York Citys homosexual and art scene from the 1960s to 1990s. ... Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... 1988 Sir Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman of Stonewall. ... Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. ... Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926–May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen, Jr. ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ...



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  • Cam Lyman millionaire transman, disappeared in 1987, found murdered in 1997.

M Cam Lyman (September 4, 1932 - between 1987 and 1995), born Camilla in Westwood, Massachusetts, was a transman and a multi-millionaire and breeder of champion spaniels. ...

R Divine with dogs Harris Glenn Milstead (born October 19, 1945 in Towson, Maryland - died March 7, 1988) was better known by his drag persona Divine. ... John Waters (born April 22, 1946, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American filmmaker, who became well known in the early 1970s for his intentionally transgressive comedies. ...

S Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951-2002) was a transgender activist and vetran of the Stonewall Riots - the protest against homophobic abuse that, in the minds of many, birthed the modern LGBT rights movement. ... The Stonewall riots, which as a whole is often called the Stonewall Rebellion, were a series of violent conflicts between lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer persons and police officers in New York City. ... Craig Russell was the stage name of Russell Craig Eadie (January 10, 1948-October 30, 1990), a Canadian female impersonator. ...

T Jeanette Schmid (6 November 1924 - 9 March 2005) was perhaps the greatest professional transsexual whistler the world has seen. ... Shabnam Mausi () is the first Indian Transgendered or Hijra (South Asia) to be elected to the Lok Sabha - Indias Legislative Assembly. ... Madhya PradeÅ›   (HindÄ«: मध्य प्रदेश, English: , IPA: ), often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. ...

V Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993), born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska and known simply as Brandon, was living as a transgendered man[1] who was raped and murdered[2] in one of the most infamous American hate crimes of the 1990s. ... Movie poster for Boys Dont Cry Boys Dont Cry is a 1999 movie based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgendered young man who was raped and murdered by his male friends, after they found out he was physically female. ... Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 - January 21, 1989) was a United States jazz pianist and saxophonist. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ...

  • Susanna Valenti, a self-identified heterosexual transvestite who wrote columns for Virginia Prince's underground magazine, Transvestia, from 1960 to 1970. Valenti transitioned from a life of periodic cross-dressing to full time living as a woman during a time when the categories of transgender were in flux and the subject of much contestation.

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Edward D. Wood, Jr. ...

Earlier historical individuals

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. This is a partial list of confirmed and debated famous lesbian, bisexual, or gay people. ...


Many of these persons cross-dressed during wartime for various purposes. Such people are covered under the article Crossdressing During Wartime. Many people have engaged in crossdressing during wartime under various circumstances and for various motives. ...


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  • Herculine Barbin, 19th Century French hermaphrodite
  • James Barry, female bodied surgeon who lived as a man throughout his/her life, according to some accounts in order to be able to practice medicine.

E In these historical (non-fictional) journals, written as part of a treatment, Herculine Barbin tells the story of hir life as a hermaphrodite. ... The 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology and botany, a hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs during its life. ... James Barry (1795 – 25 July 1865) was a surgeon in the British Army. ...

  • Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
  • Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat (1728-1810) who claimed to have been born a girl and later adopted a female persona.

A bust depicting Elagabalus. ... Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée Éon de Beaumont (1728 - 1810), usually known as the Chevalier dEon was a French diplomat, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. ...

Fictional individuals

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  • Azure C., a transsexual model on the American soap opera The City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.

B For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... The ABC soap opera The City aired from November 13, 1995 to March 28, 1997. ...

C Baron Ashura (Ashura Danshaku) is a fictional character featuring in the works of mangaka Go Nagai. ... Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ or マジンガー・ゼット)(無敵鐵金鋼), derived from the original romaji majinga and also known in the US as Tranzor Z, is the name of a manga by artist Go Nagai, first published in Japan in 1972, and turned into a long-running anime television series later in the same year. ... The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar who creates his own private army at the age of just seventeen. ... In zoology, a hermaphrodite is a species that contains both male and female sexual organs at some point during their lives. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Patrick McCabe (born March 27, 1955 in Clones, in County Monaghan, Ireland) is an Irish writer of mostly dark and violent novels of contemporary, often small-town, Ireland. ... Breakfast on Pluto (1998) is a novel by Patrick McCabe. ... A Republican mural in Belfast depicting the hunger strikes of 1981. ... Cillian Murphy as Patrick Kitten Braden Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cillian Murphy (Irish: Cillian Ó Murchú, May 25, 1976) is an Irish actor known for his distinctively blue eyes[1] and rising star status. ... Huffman as Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, who is best known for her award-winning role in Transamerica and as Lynette Scavo on the hit ABC drama Desperate Housewives. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Transamerica is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated 2005 comedy-drama produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. ... Myra Breckinridge (1968) is a satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. ... Gore Vidal in 1948, photographed by Carl Van Vechten Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) is a prolific, versatile American writer of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays, and, of late, a liberal political pundit. ... Myron (Greek Μύρων) was a sculptor from the middle 5th century BCE. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. ... Bridget is a fictional character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, first appearing in Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival. ... The Guilty Gear series is known for its unique graphics. ... Screenshot of Kung Fu Master (1984, Irem). ...

  • Liane Cartman, parent of Eric Cartman and local hermaphrodite in the fictional town of South Park
  • Chloe, pre-operative transsexual nightclub singer from the comic book How Loathsome by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane.
  • Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular British soap opera Coronation Street. First transsexual portrayed on British soaps, since 1998.
  • Claire, an African-American transgender character played by actress Sheryl Lee Ralph on Showtime's Barbershop: The Series in 2005

D Liane Cartman Liane Cartman, originally voiced by the late Mary Kay Bergman and later by Eliza J. Schneider, is the mother of Eric Cartman on the television program South Park. ... Eric Theodore Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... Ted Naifeh is an American comic book writer and artist that gained notoriety for his elegant illustrations in the goth romance comic Gloomcookie. ... Hayley Anne Cropper is a fictional character in the British soap opera Coronation Street. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, which was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV and is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ...

  • Henry "Hildegarde" Desmond, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Peter Scolari.

F Bosom Buddies was an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. ... Peter Scolari Peter Scolari (born September 12, 1954 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American television, film and stage actor who was seen early in his career in the television program Bosom Buddies (1980 - 1982) and later in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997 - 2000). ...

G The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... The Rocky Horror Show was a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ... The Rocky Horror Picture Show (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien, who also composed the songs. ...

  • Herbert Garrison, schoolteacher in the fictional town of South Park, who, in the Season 9 premiere, underwent sexual reassignment surgery.

H South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ...

J Judge Constance Harm is a supporting character on The Simpsons, voiced by Jane Kaczmarek. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Little Britain is a character-based BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...

  • Geraldine Jones, an African-American character played by comedian Flip Wilson of his NBC-TV variety show The Flip Wilson Show from 1971-1974

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N George Fields and Dorothy Michaels at the Russian Tea Room Tootsie is a 1982 comedy film, which tells the story of a talented, but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult makes him unemployable. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Soapdish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular television soap opera. ... Cathy Moriarty (born November 29, 1960, in New York City) is an American actress. ... This article is about the Nip/Tuck character. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... Famke Janssen (born November 5, 1965 in Amstelveen, The Netherlands) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. ... The World According to Garp book cover The World According to Garp is a novel by John Irving. ... John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced lith-go) (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. ...

  • Nuriko (born Chou Ryuuen), biologically male but living as and referred to as a woman throughout the course of the anime and manga series Fushigi Yūgi. Expresses a wish to be reincarnated as a woman.

O Fushigi Yūgi (ふしぎ遊戯; literally Mystery Game but usually rendered Mysterious Play) is a Japanese manga (later an anime) created by Yuu Watase and serialized in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic. ...

  • Orlando, An Elizabethan era immortal from the novel of the same name by Virginia Woolf. After 200 years, Orlando changes from a man to a woman. Also a 1993 film.
  • Princess Ozma of the Land of Oz, temporarily changed into a boy, later restored to girlhood.

R Orlando is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1928. ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist who is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Princess Ozma Princess Ozma is a fictional character in the Land of Oz universe created by L. Frank Baum. ... Oz is an imaginary region containing four countries under the rule of one monarch. ...

  • Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Roni, played by Tyra Banks on the CW show All of Us during the 'O Brother Where Art Thou' episode aired on February 24, 2004.

S Hedwig and the Angry Inch is an off-Broadway musical theater play (1998) and film (2001) about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by a transsexual singer. ...

  • Angel Dumott Schunard, street performer, suffering from AIDs, in the broadway musical Rent.
  • Stephen - female character in The Well of Loneliness, a novel by Radclyffe Hall. Commonly thought of as a lesbian, modern reading of the text identifies Stephen as transgendered rather than a lesbian.

^ Edith 'Edie' Stokes, an African-American transgender character played by actress Veronica Redd during The Jeffersons fourth season in 1977. Rent is an American Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. ...


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U Japanese dramas (Japanese: ドラマ dorama; J-dramas; from English drama) are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. ... Kinpachi-sensei )is a Japanese soap opera. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

  • Pauline Urthiel, Plasma Physicist from Larry Niven's Known Space universe. Appeared in the Gil Hamilton detective story Arm. In the story she, along with husband Lawrence Muhammad Ecks (X?), is on a short list of suspects in the murder of prominent scientist Raymond Sinclair, the inventor of a very mysterious (and very deadly) device.

V A Plasma lamp In physics and chemistry, a plasma is an ionized gas, and is usually considered to be a distinct phase of matter. ... Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of several science fiction novels and short stories written by author Larry Niven. ... Gilbert Gilgamesh Hamilton is a fictional character in the Known Space universe created by Larry Niven. ... ARM is a story in Known Space by Larry Niven. ...

  • Dono Vorrutyer from the Vorkosigan Saga books, who was born Lady Donna, but surgically had her sex changed to male to prevent her loathed cousin Richars from inheriting the Countship.

W The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar who creates his own private army at the age of just seventeen. ...

  • Reni Wassulmaier, a filmmaker and DJ in the Grand Theft Auto video game series. She/He was an avant-garde film director of bizarre movies before moving to Vice City in 1984 to shoot "edgy" pop music videos. She/He soon gets another sex change and moves to back to Europe to work in the exotic pornography industry. Fourteen years later she/he moved to Liberty City to be a DJ on the Flashback 95.6 radio station.
  • Kip "Buffy" Wilson, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Tom Hanks.

Y Grand Theft Auto may refer to: Grand Theft Auto (series), a series of free-roam video games Grand Theft Auto (video game), the first game in the series Grand Theft Auto (film), a 1977 film by Ron Howard Motor vehicle theft, a felony in the United States This is a... Vice City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series that is loosely based on Miami, Florida. ... Liberty City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series that is loosely based on New York City. ... Bosom Buddies was an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. ... Thomas Tom Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer who starred in family-friendly and screwball comedies before achieving notable success as a dramatic actor. ...

  • Sadako Yamamura, the genetically male psychic villain of the Ring series of novels. Victim of a birth disorder causing "her" to have a vagina and breasts. Her physical appearance was that of a very beautiful young woman. (Note: There is no evidence that the version of Sadako portrayed in the Ringu movie series, and it is even less likely that Samara Morgan of the American remake has the same condition)

Z Sadako Yamamura, the main character of the Ring series of movies. ... cover of the British print by Harper Collins Ring is a horror novel by Koji Suzuki set in modern day Japan. ... Ring ) is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from a novel by Koji Suzuki of the same name. ... Samara Morgan as portrayed by Daveigh Chase. ... The Ring is a 2002 American film, a remake of the Japanese horror mystery Ring (1998). ...

A zarf is a (usually) highly ornamented holder for a hot coffee cup. ... All My Children (AMC) is an American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ... Jeffrey Carlson (born June 23 in Long Beach, California) is a Broadway, film, and TV actor and singer. ...

Mythological figures

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B The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821–1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles, also Akhilleus or Achilleus (Ancient Greek ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War... In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (also known as Lycurgus) was the King of Skyros during the Trojan War. ... In Norse mythology, Alfhild was a beautiful maiden engaged to King Alf. ... Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ... In Norse mythology, King Alf was the suitor of Alfhild. ...

C Brihannala, in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, was the name assumed by Arjuna, who was in disguise as a eunuch (on account of a curse by Urvasi). ... This article discusses the adherents of Hinduism. ... Mahabharat redirects here. ...

  • Caeneus, born as the woman Caenis, an immensely strong warrior mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. He asked to be, and subsequently was, transformed into a man after being raped by Mercury (sometimes Poseidon in some versions) as a girl. In the versions of the story in which Caenus is raped by Poseidon he is later granted immunity to all mortal weapons by sea god, who feels guilty.

I In Greek mythology, Caeneus was originally a Thessalonian woman, Caenis, the daughter of Elatus. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... // Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of Ovids Metamorphosis Englished The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms according to Greek and Roman points of view. ... A sculpture of the Roman god Mercury by 17th-century Flemish artist Artus Quellinus. ... This article is about the Greek god. ... This article is about the Greek god. ...

  • Iphis, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was born female and raised as a boy by his mother to avoid death at the hands of her father. He eventually appealed to the Egyptian god Isis and was changed into a male, so that he could marry his love, Ianthe

J Isis changing the sex of Iphis. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... // Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of Ovids Metamorphosis Englished The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms according to Greek and Roman points of view. ... :This article discusses the ancient goddess. ... Origin: Greek. ...

  • Pope Joan, who according to legend was a cross-dressing woman elected Catholic Pope (given the name "John VIII"), whose reign was variously attributed to several periods of history. She allegedly died or was murdered in childbirth during a papal procession. There is no evidence for her existence, and the story originates from a much later date than the purported events.

T The Papess, a Marseilles tarot card of the 18th century, which depicts a female Pope. ...

Y In Greek mythology, Tiresias (also transliterated as Teiresias) was a blind prophet famous for changing his sex, the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. ... Oedipus with the Sphinx, from an Attic red-figure cylix from the Vatican Museum, ca. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ...

  • 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.

For the Chen Dynasty empress whose Buddhist nun name was Guanyin, see Empress Shen Wuhua. ... The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma (Sanskrit: Saddharmapundarīka-sūtra; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō Renge Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential Mahāyāna sutras in East Asia and the basis...

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
  • The Mirror Makes No Sense, March 2006 ISBN 1-4259-2404-2

See also

The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... Transgender is a very complex topic, where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. ... The Kinks’ Lola is a mainstream popular rock and roll song that tells the story of how a young man meets a transvestite in a Soho nightclub and takes her home with him at closing time. ... This is a partial list of confirmed famous people who were or are gay, lesbian or bisexual. ... Transgenderism is a grassroots political movement seeking transgender rights and affirming transgender pride. ... // Several movies feature transgender as a central plot element, including: Glen or Glenda? (1953) is a semi-autobiographical movie starring its director Ed Wood, who was a transvestite. ... Damon Matthews and Todd Rice (Obsidian) share a kiss in the pages of Manhunter In recent years, mainstream comic book publishers have portrayed more of their characters, both protagonists and supporting, as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT). ... Cover for the novel Heather Has Two Mommies Heather Has Two Mommies, written by Leslea Newman, seems to have led the way for the increased publication of gay young adult novels. ...

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Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as male, female, both or neither) not matching one's "assigned gender" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex).
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