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| x Patrick Califia |
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Male | Female | 1954 |
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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| Transman | 1999 | ||||
| x Christine Jorgensen |
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Male | Male | 1926 |
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 Wendy Carlos |
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Female | Female |
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 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 Ina Fried |
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Other | Male |
Ina Fried is an American journalist and senior staff writer for CNET Network's News.com. Fried is frequent commenter on technology news on National Public Radio, local television news and for other print and broadcast outlets.
Fried is a personal...
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| x Elagabalus |
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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 Stanisława Walasiewicz |
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Other |
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 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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Other |
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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Other |
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 Lili Elbe |
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Other |
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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Other | Female |
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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Other |
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 Vaginal Davis |
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Other |
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 Julian Eltinge |
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Other |
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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Other |
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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Other |
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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Other |
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 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 Dana Baitz |
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Other |
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 | Other |
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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Male | Male |
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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Other |
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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Other |
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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Other | Male | 1728 |
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 Maddie Blaustein |
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Female |
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 Chrystos |
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Other |
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 | Other | Intersexuality |
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 Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax | Other |
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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Other |
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 | Other | Intersexuality |
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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Other |
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 Jayne County |
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Other |
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 Calpernia Addams |
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Female |
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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Other |
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 | Other |
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 Erik Schinegger |
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Other | Intersexuality |
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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| x Colin Kennedy Donovan |
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Other |
Colin Kennedy Donovan is a disabled queer, transgender, and genderqueer identified anti-racist educator, activist, performer, and writer. Donovan is the creator of the radical Queer disability zine, Fuck Pity. In 2000, Donovan cofounded RESYST...
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| x Cheryl Chase |
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Other | Intersexuality |
Bo O. Laurent, better known by her pseudonym Cheryl Chase (born August 14, 1956), is an American intersex activist and the founder of the Intersex Society of North America. She began using the names Bo Laurent and Cheryl Chase simultaneously in the...
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| x Molly Cutpurse |
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Molly Cutpurse is an English transgender author. She was born in Stratford in the East End of London in September 1952 and raised in nearby Leyton. A polymath, shy, and synaesthete, after working at many jobs, she decided that writing was the only...
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| x Michelle Dumaresq |
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Other |
Michelle Dumaresq is a professional downhill mountain bike competitor and post-operative trans woman. She is from Canada and competes with other professional female downhill mountain bike racers. She entered the sport in 2001, six years after...
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| x Rod Michano | Other |
Rod Michano, (born Toussaint Roderick Michano, April 19, 1964 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian First Nations HIV/AIDS activist and educator. He is a member of the Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation in Northern Ontario. His father,...
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| x Buck Angel |
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Other | Transman |
Buck Angel is an American adult film actor. He is believed to be the first, possibly only, and arguably the most well-known transman porn star and one of the most well-known transsexual pornographic actors to date.
According to his website, Angel...
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| x Max Wolf Valerio | Male |
Max Wolf Valerio (born February 16, 1957) is an American poet, memoir writer, essayist and actor. He lives in San Francisco, California. He is ethnically Blackfoot Indian, Sephardic Jewish, and Northern European.
His memoirs and essays often focus...
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| x Jennifer Finney Boylan |
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Jennifer Finney Boylan (born James Richard Boylan, Jr, June 22, 1958 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) is an American author and professor at Colby College. She has openly discussed being a trans woman.
Boylan's memoir, She's Not There, was published...
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| x Andreas Krieger | Other |
Andreas Krieger (born Heidi Krieger on 20 July 1966 in Berlin) is a former German shot putter, who competed as a woman on the East German athletics team. Like many prominent East German sportspeople at the time, Krieger was systematically doped with...
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| x Valerie Arkell-Smith | Other |
Valerie Arkell-Smith (1895–1960 as Valerie Barker), was a crossdresser and Fascist who pretended to have fought in the RAF as Colonel Victor Barker.
Arkell-Smith grew up in the Channel island Jersey. She expressed desire about being born a boy....
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| x Fred Martinez |
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Fred C. Martinez, Jr. (May, 1985 – June 16, 2001) was a transgender Native American student of Navajo ancestry. Martinez was a student at Montezuma-Cortez High School in Cortez, Colorado, when he was attacked and beaten to death by 18-year old Shaun...
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| x Roberta Close | Other |
Roberta Close (born in Rio de Janeiro on 7 December 1964) is a Brazilian model. The first pre-operative transsexual model to have posed for the Brazilian edition of Playboy, Close is probably Brazil's most famous transsexual woman.
Close was born...
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| x Carole LaFavor | Other |
Carole S. LaFavor (b. Minnesota) is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995-1997 and a foundng member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American...
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| x Ben Barres | Other |
Ben A. Barres M.D., Ph.D. is an American neurobiologist who teaches at Stanford University. His research focuses on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. He is currently Associate Chair of the Neurobiology department...
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| x Alexandra Billings | Other |
Alexandra Scott Billings (born March 28, 1962, Schaumburg, Illinois) is an American transgender actress. She is the first trans woman to have played a transgender character on television.
Her father, Robert Billings, was a music teacher at Los...
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| x Jamison Green | Other |
Jamison "James" Green (born in 1948 in Oakland, California) is a leader in the transgender rights movement.
Green is known as an activist for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of transgender and transsexual...
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| x Divine |
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Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was an American singer and actor best known by his drag persona Divine. He starred in many of John Waters' films, including Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble,...
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| x Courtney Act | Other | ||||
| x Lady Colin Campbell | Other | Intersexuality |
Lady Colin Campbell, (born George William Ziadie, known as Georgie, 17 August 1949), is a British writer, biographer, autobiographer, novelist and radio interviewer, known for her biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Real Diana.
Campbell was...
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