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List of transgendered people Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

A number of noted individuals are or were transgendered.

Transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transmen and transwomen, who may identify themselves as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, androgynous cross-dressers or transvestites, drag queens, drag kings or those intersexual people whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned; or people who use similar terms to describe themselves. See those pages for an explanation of these terms. People on the list have been described according to their self-identification. This article is not sorted by transgender behaviour.

Regarding historical persons, please also note that for individuals at least until the beginning of the 20th century, there were no names for transgender behaviour, and therefore we have no statements that are a clear documentation for their reasons to behave the way they did; most of the time, we have no statements by themselves at all. All we can say is that by today's standards, these people or their behaviour would be considered transgendered.

Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.

Table of contents

1 Living individuals
2 20th and 21st century individuals
3 Earlier historical or mythological individuals
4 Fictional individuals
5 Books
6 See also
7 External links

Living individuals

Nadia Almada, Big Brother UK 2004 winner; transsexual.
April Ashley, a model
Mianne Bagger, golfer, transsexual woman
Georgina Beyer, New Zealand's (and the world's) first transsexual mayor (1995) and member of parliament (2002)
Kate Bornstein, transsexual author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist
Sara Davis Buechner (née David Buechner), concert pianist
Lady Bunny, drag performer
Patrick Califia, a writer
Wendy Carlos, American transsexual composer and electronic musician
The Lady Chablis, drag queen
Lynn Conway, transsexual computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender advocate
Caroline Cossey, also Tula, British transsexual model, author, and Bond girl
Jayne County, US rock singer (previously famous as 'Wayne County')
Candy Darling, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and subject of The Velvet Underground song "Candy Says", and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
Michelle Dumaresq, transsexual professional mountain bicyclist
Jackie Enx, transsexual drummer for the heavy metal band Rhino Bucket
Bulent Ersoy, Turkish transsexual singer
Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
Lauren Harries, famous as child prodigy 'James Harries'
Harisu, transsexual model, singer and actress
Mary Ann Horton, (also Mark Horton), transgendered (bi-gendered) Internet pioneer
Dana International, Israeli pop singer
Eddie Izzard, a comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"
Kamikawa Aya, or Aya KAMIKAWA Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
Taff al-Khalifa, transsexual man, member of Bahrain's royal family, now exiled
Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist
Angela Morley, (née Wally Stott), composer and conductor
Hedda Lettuce, drag performer
Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen
Jan Morris, transsexual author
Dee Palmer, (née David Palmer), transsexual musician
Grayson Perry, artist whose work sometimes features his female alter ego, Claire. Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize for art.
Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player
Joan Roughgarden, professor of biology; evolution and ecology expert
RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
Jason Saffer, AKA Jolene Sugarbaker, drag performer and comedian
Melissa Sklarz, the first openly transgender public official in New York State, Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan
Sandy Stone, transgender activist and author
Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc
Terre Thaemlitz, musician
Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer

20th and 21st century individuals

Gwen Araujo, US pre-operative transsexual girl, murdered 2002 [1]
Danielle Bunten Berry, US software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Arts in the 1980s, died of cancer
Jackie Curtis, US drag queen who was friends with Andy Warhol
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 [1]
Tyra Hunter, US transsexual woman, died 1995
Marsha P Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall (UK), co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952
Pepper LaBeija, Harlem, New York drag queen, subject of the documentary Paris Is Burning
Glen Milstead, actor and drag performer also known as Divine, star of many John Waters films
Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall on June 27, 1969
Brandon Teena, US transsexual boy who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry [1]
Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
Ed Wood, Jr, film-maker with transvestite tendencies

Earlier historical or mythological 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.

Achilles, dressed in women's clothing at the court of Lycomedes
Alfhild, beautiful maiden in Norse mythology who dressed as a man to avoid marrying King Alf
Chevalier d'Eon
Christina of Sweden
Roman Emperor Elagabalus
Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has both been depicted as male and female, and, according to the Lotus Sutra, has the ability to change form in order to help people.
Heracles, was dressed as a woman when enslaved by Omphale
James Barry, surgeon who masqueraded as a man throughout her life in order to be able to practice medicine
Pope Paul II, Catholic pope known to have worn women's clothes and was nicknamed "Our Lady of Pity"
Deborah Sampson, 18th century Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as male to serve in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War
Hannah Snell, 18th century woman who used a male uniform and fought alongside British marines
In Eastern Orthodoxy, Venerable Onuphrius is supposed to had been a virtuous young girl who, in order not to lose her virginity to a persistent suitor, had her wish to become a man granted by divine intervention.
Tiresias, soothsayer to Oedipus from Greek mythology changed into a woman and back in an unrelated tale

Fictional individuals

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.
Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular British soap opera Coronation Street. First transsexual portrayed on British soaps, since 1998. Unusually for a fictional portrayal of a transgender person, the character is played by a cisgendered (non-transgendered) woman.
Frank N Furter, the transvestite lead character in the cult musical Rocky Horror Show and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Books

Wheelwright, Julie (1989). Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed As Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. London: Pandora Books. ISBN 0-04-440494-8

External links

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