A Gender Variance Who's Who

Original  July 2008.  Revised to include information from Rainer Herrn, Raimund Wolfert - and Clara at Lili-Elbe-Bibliothek in particular fo...

Tobias Lawson was born in Waddy , Kentucky. By the time she started school, she was insisting on wearing dresses, and called herself Lucy. H...

Charles Robert Brown from Pittsburgh volunteered for the US Navy in 1950 to obtain medical treatment for periodic internal bleeding. He was ...

Harry Gorman was an athletic heavily-built man who worked as a cook for the New York Central Railway. He drank liquors, smoked strong cigar...

Ken Bogas was raised in Vancouver. By age 5 he was dressing in his sisters' clothes, wondering why his body was different, and feeling l...

Lars was raised in Ramsberg , Sweden. He became a notorious thief famous for stealing from the rich. He often dressed as female supposedly ...

José was born in San Francisco, the child of unmarried Columbian and Nicaraguan immigrants. He was raised by his mother and then by his godm...

Lou was a native of San Francisco. In the 1920s using the drag name of Sonia Pavlijev and street name of Bubbles, he passed as female on the...

Denis Bird was raised in south London. He was first convicted at the age of 16. At this time he decided to become Pamela. She worked as a ...

Katherine Vosbaugh was born in France to a well-off father who gave her an excellent business education. He died when she was twenty, but by...

A native of Germany, Becker was teased about his high voice and accused of being a cross-dressed woman. Taking the hint Becker became Emma a...

When Dhundiraj Govind Phalke made the first Indian films, acting had become such a degraded profession in that country that no women, not e...