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| x Albert Cashier |
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Male | Clogherhead | Dec 25, 1843 | Soldier |
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 Alec Butler | 1959 | Writer |
Alec Butler (born 1959 in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. Born intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch dyke before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently...
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| x Alejandro Ray Lucero | ||||||
| x Alexander John Goodrum | 1960 |
Alexander John Goodrum (1960–2002) was an African American transgender civil rights activist. He was the founder and director of TGNet Arizona, one of the first statewide transgender organizations in the United States. He was a board member of the...
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| x Alexandra Billings | Mar 28, 1962 |
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 Alexis Arquette |
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Los Angeles | Jul 28, 1969 | Actor |
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 Amanda Lepore |
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Cedar Grove |
Amanda Lepore is an American model, fashion icon, nightlife hostess and performer. She is a transsexual icon who has received attention for entertainment and business skills. She has been the advertising face for Heatherette, M.A.C. (cosmetics),...
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| x Amaranta Gómez Regalado | ||||||
| x Amy Soos |
Amy Soos lived all her life on the Salt River Pima Indian Reservation in Arizona, but often went into Phoenix in the evenings. After not returning home one such night, her body was discovered in a roadway. She died of multiple...
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| x Amy Tashiana | ||||||
| x Andrea James |
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Jan 16, 1967 | Writer |
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967), is an American film consultant, actress, LGBT rights activist, and transsexual woman.
In 2003, James co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with her business partner Calpernia Addams, to create educational...
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| x Andreas Krieger | Jul 20, 1966 |
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 Anjie Milano | ||||||
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| x Antonia San Juan | Mar 22, 1961 | Writer |
Antonia San Juan (Born March 22, 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and...
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| x April Ashley |
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Apr 25, 1935 | Model |
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 Aretha “ReRe” Scott | ||||||
| x Ariana Dibble | ||||||
| x Arlene Diaz | ||||||
| x Arn Saba |
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1947 | Writer |
Katherine Shannon Collins (born Arnold Alexander Saba, Jr. 1947, Vancouver, British Columbia), formerly Arn Saba, is a Canadian cartoonist, writer, media personality, stage performer and composer.
In 1965, Collins began the University of British...
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| x Aya Kamikawa |
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Politician |
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 Balian Buschbaum | ||||||
| x Ben Barres |
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 Bibiana Fernández | 1954 |
Bibiana Fernández, also known as Bibí Andersen (Tangier, February 13, 1954) is a Spanish actress and model.
She was born as a boy called Manuel and spent her childhood in Malaga. She later went to Barcelona to fulfill her dream of being an artist....
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| x Billy Tipton |
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Oklahoma City | Dec 29, 1914 | Talent agent |
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 Brandon Teena |
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Lincoln | Dec 12, 1972 |
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 Buck Angel |
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Transman | 1972 | Entrepreneur |
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 Bülent Ersoy |
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Jun 9, 1952 | Singer |
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 Calpernia Addams |
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Nashville | Feb 20, 1971 | Entrepreneur |
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 Cam Lyman | 1932 |
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 Candy Darling |
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Forest Hills | Nov 24, 1944 |
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 Carole LaFavor | Writer |
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 Charlie Anders | Writer |
Charlie Anders is the author of the novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of the anthology She's Such A Geek (Seal Press, 2006) and the science fiction blog io9.
She is the publisher of other magazine, the ...
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| x Cheryl Chase |
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Intersexuality | New Jersey | Aug 14, 1956 | Entrepreneur |
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 Chevalier d'Eon |
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Male | Oct 5, 1728 | Diplomat |
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 Chiya Fujino | 1962 | Writer |
Chiya Fujino (藤野 千夜, Fujino Chiya, born February 27, 1962) is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes.
Fujino is a male-to-female...
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| x Christina Kahrl |
Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus. She is currently the managing editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com, as well as their annual publication. She is a member of the Baseball Writers Association of...
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| x Christine Jorgensen |
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Male | May 30, 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 Chrystos |
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Dec 10, 1946 | Writer |
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 Chuck Knipp |
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1961 | Comedian |
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 Claude Cahun |
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Oct 25, 1894 | Writer |
Claude Cahun (25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality.
Born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, she was...
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| x Colin Kennedy Donovan |
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Writer |
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 Courtney Act | ||||||
| x Dana Baitz |
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Singer |
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 Dana International |
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Israel | Feb 2, 1972 | Singer |
Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן), professionally known as Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל, born Yaron Cohen, 2 February, 1972) is an Israeli pop singer of a Yemenite Jewish origin.
She is most famous for having won the 1998 Eurovision...
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| x Danielle Bunten Berry |
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Female | Feb 19, 1949 | Programmer |
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 Danielle Redding | ||||||
| x Danny La Rue |
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Cork | Jul 26, 1927 | Drag queen |
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 Dawn Langley Simmons | Intersexuality | Oct 15, 1937 | Writer |
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (15 October 1937 – 18 September 2000) was a prolific English author and biographer. Born "Gordon Langley Hall", Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she was adopted by Margaret Rutherford, who was...
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| x Deasha Andrews | ||||||
| x Deirdre N. McCloskey |
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Female | 1942 | Professor |
Deirdre N. McCloskey(September 11, 1942 - living) U.S.A.
Professor, historian, and feminist economist
Born Donald N. McCloskey at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was educated at Harvard (she was the son of a professor there) but has spent her academic...
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| x Diana Hignutt |
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Writer |
Diana Hignutt is a transsexual American novelist of fantasy fiction.
As a result of the publication of her first novel, Moonsword, Ms. Hignutt has been interviewed on radio programs across the United States and on such national television shows as...
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| x Divine |
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Towson | Oct 19, 1945 | Singer |
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 Donna Sachet |
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San Francisco | Drag queen |
Donna Sachet is an American drag actor, singer, community activist, spokemodel, and writer based in San Francisco. She has been awarded many community honors including as Grand Marshall in the San Francisco Pride parade and being named first lady of...
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| x Dorce Gamalama | Indonesia | Jul 21, 1963 | Singer |
Dorce Gamalama (born in Solok, West Sumatra, Indonesia on July 21, 1963) is an Indonesian transsexual pop singer, actress, presenter, and comedian.
She was named Dedi Yuliardi Ashadi at birth, and was raised by her grandmother after both parents...
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| x Dreuxilla Divine |
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Río Piedras, Puerto Rico | Jan 12, 1974 | Presenter |
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 Earl Lind | 1874 | Writer |
Earl Lind (a.k.a. Ralph Werther and Jennie June) was one of the earliest hermaphrodites to publish their own autobiography in the United States.
Earl Lind was born in 1874 in Connecticut. He was born in a Puritan family.
By 1895 he met other...
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| x Edinanci Silva | Intersexuality | Aug 23, 1976 |
Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 1976 in Sousa, Paraíba) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo, she represented the country at three...
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| x Elagabalus |
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203 C.E. |
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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