A Gender Variance Who's Who

++Original version April 2009; revised March 2019, and again February 2021.                                                                ...

On page xxii of C Jacob Hale’s introduction to Richard Docter’s biography of Christine Jorgensen, we find: “During the 1950s, others who ...

Annette Dolan Annette Dolan had been told by doctors that “there was no ‘help’ for me, and I accepted this [as] gospel”.  After the news...

Henry Peter Glavocich was born in Jersey City, and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. His mother left his father soon after his birth because he...

++ added later In early common law the crime of mayhem was committed by inflicting a wound that reduced a man's ability to fight. Wome...

Agnes (a pseudonym) grew up the youngest of four children in a Catholic working-class family. Her machinist father died when she was eight. ...

When speaking of transgender persons the term 'heterosexual' is best used for persons who encouple with a person going in the other ...