List of transgendered people

A number of noted individuals are or were transgendered.

Transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transsexuals, transvestic fetishists, cross-dressers, intersexuals, drag queens, drag kings and others.

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 being transgender.

Table of contents

1 Living Individuals
2 20th and 21st Century Individuals
3 Earlier Historical or Mythological Individuals
4 Books:

4.1 External Links

Living Individuals

Kamikawa Aya, Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
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
Lady Bunny, drag performer
Wendy Carlos, American transsexual composer and electronic musician.
The Lady Chablis, drag queen
Caroline Cossey, AKA Tula, British transsexual model, author, and Bond girl
Candy Darling, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and subject of the Velvet Underground song "Candy Says"
Michelle Dumaresq, transsexual professional mountain bicyclist
Jackie Enx, transsexual drummer for the heavy metal band Rhino Bucket
Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
Dana International, transsexual Israeli pop singer
Eddie Izzard, a comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"
Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist
Hedda Lettuce, drag performer
Jan Morris, transsexual author
Grayson Perry, artist whose work sometimes features his female alter ego, Claire
Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player
RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen
Sonja Elen Kisa, creator of Toki Pona
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
Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc
Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer

20th and 21st Century Individuals

Gwen Araujo, US transsexual who was murdered [1]
Danielle Bunten Berry, US software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Arts in the 1980s, died of cancer
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 specualtive diagnosis of Klinefelter's Syndrome
Bella Evangelista, also known as Elvys Perez, drag performer who was murdered in Washington, D.C [1]
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
Sandy Stone, transgender activist and author
Brandon Teena, US transsexual who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry [1]
Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
Ed Wood, 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.

Alfhild, beautiful maiden in Norse mythology who dressed as a man to avoid marrying King Alf
Christina of Sweden
Hatshepsut, female Pharaoh of Egypt who wore male clothing and even a false beard
Pope Joan, who according to legend was a cross-dressing woman elected Catholic pope (named Pope John VIII) whose tenure was placed between Leo IV (847-855) and Benedict III (855-858), and who died or was murdered in childbirth during a papal procession. There is no evidence for her existence.
Joan of Arc, tried and executed also for cross-dressing
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"
Hannah Snell, 18th century woman who used a male uniform and fought alongside British marines
Tiresias, soothsayer to Oedipus from Greek mythology changed into a woman and back in an unrelated tale

Books:

Feinberg, Leslie (1996). Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7941-3
Garber, Marjorie (1992). Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90072-7
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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