A Gender Variance Who's Who

Part I: beginnings Part II: business woman Part III: bibliography and comments In 1962 Claire encountered Yugoslavian immigrant Franz Kolt...

Part I: beginnings  Part II: business woman   Part III: bibliography and comments Clair(e) Elgin was this woman’s real name, however Joanne...

Alison Li. Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution . Universit...

Part I:  life until first visit to Benjamin clinic   Part II:  Transition Part III:  comments Raskin was looking for a writer to write her b...

Harry Benjamin published The Transsexual Phenomenon in 1966. Two years later he presented a paper at the American Psychiatric Association m...

Charlaque was born in Berlin-Schöneberg and raised with the name Curt Scharlach. There was a brother Hans, seven years older. The family, wh...

Elke Mackenzie was born in London and raised in Scotland, and was given the name Ivan Mackenzie Lamb. Lamb did a B.Sc. in Botany at Edinburg...

Judy Bowen was assigned male and so raised in Virginia and Tennessee despite feeling otherwise.  The family was religious – church three ti...

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