A Gender Variance Who's Who

Preciado, born in Burgos in northen Spain was raised and educated as Beatriz, and having earned a Fulbright Fellowship, at the age of 28 and...

Nasciemento was born in Parnaíba , a coastal city in the north-east Brazilian state of Piauí, assigned male and raised by the maternal grand...

​Hoskins was born in Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire, and mainly educated at Uppingham School, a boarding school in Rutland County, where he...

Jay Thomas grew up in a small town in Indiana, and as a teenager was a national swimming champion. Despite feeling wrong as a boy, Jay ma...

Albert Ellsworth was born in Yakima , Washington State, to a teenage mother, Mildred Sweet (1911-1955) and her husband Albert Ellsworth ...

Rodney Arsenault was raised in a trailer park in Beamesville , Ontario, where he identified with beautiful women. He gained two masters deg...

Harold Lyman Miller grew up in rural western New York state, where as a young teenager he would take a dress when fossil hunting in the wil...

Knudsen was born in Fumes , Norway, and did a BSc Electronics Engineering at Gjøvik University College , 1979 and a PhD in media production ...

Continued from Part 1 . The next year, 1999, in an interview in Genders , Halberstam wrote: "The term 'female masculinity' ...

Halberstam's grandfather was the Rabbi in the town of Most in the Sudetenland . He died of a heart attack in 1936.   After the Nazi occ...

Carsten Balzer, whose female persona is Carla Lagata, has been active in social movements since the mid-1980s, holds a MA and PhD from the F...