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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 behaviour.

Living individuals

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  • Stephen Whittle, British trans man, lawyer, writer and educator
  • Cristan Williams, transsexual, founder of the CATS TG Homeless Shelter, activist and program manager for the Houston Area Community Services' Transgender Program
  • Holly Woodlawn, U.S. drag queen, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and featured in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

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20th and 21st century individuals

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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. [5]

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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.

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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?), are among a 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

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
  • The Mirror Makes No Sense, March 2006 ISBN 1-4259-2404-2

See also

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