A Gender Variance Who's Who

John Coulter was a man of definite masculine appearance with good muscular development. At the age of twenty-one he was working as a man-s...

In London, groom, landlord, and pitch-boiler and then sawyer, James Allen was married to Abigail Naylor, known as Mary from 1807. In 1829...

Sarah Withers married a farm labourer, William Holtom at the age of 18. However Sarah felt quite wrong in the situation, and after two year...

Joana Nery was the youngest of four sisters. In a struggle with her own body, she became a Brazilian diving champion at age 16. She won 30 m...

Martha Toth worked 20 years at a factory in Buda Pest. She lived by herself, and had no man in her life. At age 50 she had a heart attack ...

Eugenia Falleni was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest of 22 children, 17 of whom survived, and moved with her parents to New Zealand about...

Jennie Hodgers was born in Clogherhead , County Louth. Hodgers emigrated to the US as a male stowaway. As Albert Cashier he enlisted in th...

Elizabeth Taylor grew up to be Ned. Although British, Happy Ned Taylor served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War, and was immo...

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...

Ellen Tremaye arrived in Melbourne, Australia from Waterford, Ireland in 1856, where she had borne a child, possibly illegitimately. Her bir...

Margaret Allen was born in Bolton , Lancashire, the twentieth of twenty-two children, and raised in Bacup . He dressed as a man, even in ...