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| x Female |
Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces ova (egg cells). The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced...
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Elagabalus (pronounced /elaga'balus/, c. 203 – March 11, 222), also known as Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman Emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. Born Varius Avitus Bassianus, he was Syrian on his mother...
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| x Intersexuality |
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Intersexuality in humans refers to intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish male from female. This is usually understood to be congenital, involving chromosome, morphologic, genital and/or gonadal anomalies...
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Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos' fame originated in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time; most...
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| x Transsexualism |
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Transsexualism is a condition in which an individual identifies with a physical sex different from the one they were born with. A medical diagnosis can be made if a person experiences discomfort as a result of a desire to be a member of the opposite...
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| x Stanisława Walasiewicz |
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Stanislawa Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, Stanislawa Walasiewiczówna (see Polish name) and Stella Walsh (3 April 1911 – 4 December 1980) was a Polish athlete who became a women's Olympic champion. It was later learned that...
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| x Poppy Z. Brite |
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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels....
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| x Brandon Teena |
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Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993 in Lincoln, Nebraska) was a trans man who was raped and murdered. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was based on the documentary film...
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| x James Barry |
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James Barry (1792-1795 – 25 July 1865), was a military surgeon in the British Army. After graduation from the University of Edinburgh, Barry served in India and Cape Town, South Africa. By the end of his career, he had risen to the rank of Inspector...
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| x Billy Tipton |
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Billy Lee Tipton (born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton; December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician and bandleader who lived as a man for nearly 50 years. Tipton found modest success as a professional musician, but until his dying...
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| x Gwen Araujo |
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The murder of Gwen Araujo, an American teenage transwoman, was a murder case in Newark, California, in October 2002. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering she was...
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| x Aya Kamikawa |
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Aya Kamikawa (上川 あや, Kamikawa Aya, born 1968 in Tokyo)) is a Tokyo municipal official, the first transsexual person to seek elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003. Kamikawa, a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application...
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| x Hannah Snell |
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Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier.
Hannah Snell was born in Worcester, England on 23 April, 1723. Locals claim that she played a soldier even as a child. In 1740, she moved to London and...
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| x Genderqueer |
Genderqueer (GQ) and intergender are catch-all terms for gender identities other than man and woman. People who identify as genderqueer may think of themselves as being both man and woman, as being neither man nor woman, or as falling completely...
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| x Lili Elbe |
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Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931) was a trans woman and one of the first identifiable recipients of male to female sex reassignment surgery. She was born as a male in Denmark. Born as Einar Mogens Wegener, she identified as male for most of her life and was a...
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| x Danielle Bunten Berry |
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Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), born Daniel Paul Bunten, and also known as Dani Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first successful multiplayer games), and...
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| x Dreuxilla Divine |
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Dreuxilla Divine (born January 12, 1974, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican drag queen character on television. Divine has gained major popularity as a drag performer both in Puerto Rico and eastern United States cities such as New York...
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| x Lady Bunny |
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The Lady Bunny (born Jon Ingle, 1962) is an American drag queen originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has lived in New York since the 1980s. He is the founder and emcee of the annual Wigstock event and is well-known as a nightclub DJ, promoter...
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| x Christine Jorgensen |
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Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was the first widely-known individual to have sex reassignment surgery—in this case, male to female.
Jorgensen was born George William Jorgensen, Jr., the second child of George William Jorgensen Sr.,...
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| x Chuck Knipp |
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Chuck Knipp is an American and Canadian (dual citizenship) drag comedian best known for his controversial alter egos, the characters 'Shirley Q. Liquor' and 'Betty Butterfield.'
Knipp is a citizen of both the United States and Canada, active in the...
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| x Mary Ann Horton |
This article is about the software developer. For the archaeologist, see Mark Horton (archaeologist), and for the bridge author, see Mark Horton (bridge).
Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton, is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed...
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| x Vaginal Davis |
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Vaginal Davis (born February 20, 1969) is a drag queen, performance artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis's name is a homage to the radical black feminist Angela Davis.
Davis is often associated with the formation of the...
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| x Tyra Hunter |
Tyra Hunter (1970 - August 7, 1995) was an African-American transsexual woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident and was refused medical care. Emergency medical technicians at the scene of the accident uttered derogatory...
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| x Transman |
A trans man, trans guy, or FTM (sometimes "transman") is a transsexual or transgender man: a person who was assigned female gender at birth, but who feels that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves and consequently identifies...
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| x Julian Eltinge |
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Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941), born William Julian Dalton, was an American stage and screen actor and female impersonator. After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Eltinge garnered notice from...
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| x Alexis Arquette |
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Alexis Arquette (born July 28, 1969) is an American trans woman actor, musician, and cabaret performer.
Arquette was born Robert Arquette in Los Angeles, California, to Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actor, poet, theater operator, activist,...
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| x Kate Bornstein |
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Kate Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, transsexual woman and gender theorist.
Born Albert Bornstein in Neptune, New Jersey, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown...
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| x Jackie Curtis |
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John Curtis Holder, Jr. (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985), better known as Jackie Curtis, was a pioneer transgendered film star, poet and playwright.
Curtis was born in New York City to John Holder, Sr. and Italian-American Jenevive Uglialoro....
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| x Leslie Feinberg |
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Leslie Feinberg (born September 1, 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.
Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender &...
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| x Ha Ri-su |
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Harisu (Hangul: 하리수; Chinese: 河莉秀) is the stage name of Lee Kyung-eun (born February 17, 1975), a transsexual pop singer, model and actress from South Korea. Born biologically male, Harisu identified as female from early childhood, and underwent sex...
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| x Patrick Califia |
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Patrick Califia (also 'Califia-Rice', formerly known as Pat Califia), born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman.
Califia was born female,...
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| x April Ashley |
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April Ashley (born on 25 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was famously outed as a transsexual by the British press in 1961.
Named George Jamieson at birth, after an unhappy childhood in Liverpool as one of six children...
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| x Lauren Harries |
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Lauren Charlotte Harries (born James Harries 1978 in Surrey, England), was a British childhood media personality who appeared on Wogan, as a childhood prodigy in the field of antiques.
The son of Mark Harries, who worked in the hotel business and...
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| x Dana Baitz |
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Dana Baitz is a Toronto-based popular musician and musicologist. Her musicological research focuses on her doctoral studies at York University, on the music of Prince. Dana's recording and performing career began in the early 1990s. She has...
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| x Lechane Bezuidenhout |
Lechane Bezuidenhout (born Leon Bezuidenhout in Belgium c. 1967) is a transsexual international con artist. Leon, a Pietersburg Telkom technician, underwent a sex change operation, worked as a waitress before moving to South Africa.
Once relocated...
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| x Bülent Ersoy |
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Bülent Ersoy (born June 9, 1952) is a transwoman Turkish celebrity and popular singer of Ottoman classical music. Over the years, Ersoy has become a symbol for the increased tolerance for LGBT figures in Turkish media.
Bülent began her career as a...
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| x Albert Cashier |
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Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier was biologically female, but lived as a man.
Hodgers was born in Clogherhead,...
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| x Jeanne Baré |
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Jeanne Baré (sometimes spelled Barret or Baret) (July 27, 1740 - 1803), was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Baré was probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of...
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| x Meryn Cadell |
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Meryn Cadell is a Canadian writer and performance artist. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia.
Cadell, a female-to-male transsexual, achieved prominence as a...
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| x Chevalier d'Eon |
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Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 - 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second...
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| x Cam Lyman |
Cam Lyman (born September 4, 1932 - died sometime between 1987-1995), born Camilla in Westwood, Massachusetts, was a transgender man and a multi-millionaire breeder of champion spaniels. He disappeared in 1987 and was declared dead in 1995.
In...
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| x Danny La Rue |
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Danny La Rue, OBE (26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish-born British entertainer known for his singing and drag impersonations.
Born as Daniel Patrick Carroll in Cork City, Ireland in 1927, La Rue was the youngest of either four or five siblings...
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| x Maddie Blaustein |
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Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein) (born Adam Blaustein October 9, 1960 - December 11, 2008) was an American male-to-female transgender voice actress. Blaustein was born in Long...
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| x Michelle Josef |
Michelle Josef (born 1954) is a Canadian musician and transgender activist.
Josef was born Bohdan Hluszko. Under her former name, Josef was already established as one of Canada's leading session drummers, and has continued her career in music. She...
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| x Chrystos |
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Chrystos (born 10 December, 1946) is a Menominee poet and rights activist. Prior to being published, she worked as a home caretaker, and an activist for Turtle Mountain Band of Chipewa, Norma Jean Croy, and Leonard Peltier.
Born in San Francisco,...
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| x Jim Sinclair |
Jim Sinclair is an autism rights activist who, together with fellow autistics, Kathy Lissner Grant and Donna Williams, formed Autism Network International in 1992. Being the only one of the three with an internet connection, Sinclair became the...
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| x Male |
Male (♂) refers to the sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male cannot reproduce...
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| x Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax |
Willmer "Little Ax" M. Broadnax, (December 28, 1916 – 1994) also known as "Little Axe," "Wilbur," "Willie," and "Wilmer," was an African-American hard gospel quartet singer. A tiny man with glasses and a high, powerful tenor voice, he worked and...
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| x Robert Eads |
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Robert Eads (18 December 1945 - 17 January 1999 in Toccoa, Georgia) was an American transsexual man, whose life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort.
Eads began his transition past his forties, after a marriage...
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| x Herculine Barbin |
Herculine Barbin (1838–1868) was a French intersex person who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination.
Most of what we know about Barbin comes from her later memoirs. Herculine...
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| x Candy Darling |
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Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21 1974) was an American Warhol Superstar. A male-to-female transsexual, she starred in Andy Warhol's films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and was a muse of the protopunk band The Velvet Underground...
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| x Marsha P. Johnson |
Marsha P. Johnson (1945 - July 6, 1992) was an African American transgender activist and a popular figure in New York City's gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s.
One of the city's oldest and best known drag queens, Johnson participated in...
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| x Jayne County |
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Jayne County (born Wayne Rogers in 1947), formerly known as Wayne County, is an American male-to-female transsexual performer, musician and actress whose career has spanned several decades.
Born in 1947 as Wayne Rogers, County left her hometown of...
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| x Miss Shangay Lily |
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Miss Shangay Lily (born March 1, 1963) is best known for being one of Spain's most popular drag queens. He is also a writer, actor and director.
A radical feminist intellectual, Miss Shangay Lily became a pioneer Queer activist and social agitator...
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| x Calpernia Addams |
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Calpernia Sarah Addams is an American author, actress and musician, and a spokesperson and activist for transgender rights and issues.
Addams grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She served as a Hospital Corpsman with the Navy and United States Marine...
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| x Pine Leaf |
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Pine Leaf was a woman and chief of the Crow tribe who counted coup in the 1830s. She is described in the autobiography of James Beckwourth as well as in Edwin T. Denig's chronicle on the tribes of the upper Missouri River.
She was born to the Gros...
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| x Kaúxuma Núpika |
Kaúxuma Núpika, also called Qangon, Bowdash, and the Manlike Woman, was a Kootenai person who lived in the early 19th century.
Reports of encounters with Núpika were recorded by both David Thompson, famous pioneer surveyor, and by Sir John Franklin,...
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| x Chi Chi LaRue |
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Larry David Paciotti (born November 8, 1959) is an American film director of gay, bisexual and straight pornography. He is best known as Chi Chi LaRue and has also directed under the names Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson. As the LaRue persona is...
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| x Rebecca Heineman |
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Rebecca Ann Heineman, formerly known as Bill Heineman, is a video game programmer. A long-time veteran of the computer game industry, Heineman was a founding member of Interplay Productions, Logicware, Contraband Entertainment. She has also been...
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| x Erik Schinegger |
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Erik Schinegger (born 19 June 1948) is an Austrian skier. He was the world champion women's downhill skier in 1966, at which time he was recognized as female and known as Erika Schinegger.
Schinegger was born in Agsdorf, Carinthia. In 1967, as he...
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