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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.

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[edit] Living individuals

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  • 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"

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  • 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]

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

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

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  • Elizabeth Anne Nelson, transgender activist and writer, born James Lind, died 1998, Nelson was a prolific author of transgender fantasy fiction and co-founder of the publishing house, Reluctant Press

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  • 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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[edit] 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.

Many of these persons cross-dressed during wartime for various purposes. Such people are covered under the article Crossdressing During Wartime.

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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.

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

[edit] 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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)

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[edit] Mythological figures

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kaveney, Roz. About Roz Kaveney. Glamourous Rags. Retrieved on 2007-03-16.

[edit] External links

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