A Gender Variance Who's Who

Original July 2023, revised and updated December 2025 During the 1970s travesti sex workers in Brazil became more accepted by some members ...

Stevens was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but raised in Concord in the East Bay across from San Francisco. He came out as gay when he was call...

Original June 2011, revised November 2023. Tara's male persona was raised by a Jehovah's Witness family in New Orleans. In the early...

Edward Wilson from Leicestershire served under his uncle in Flanders during the Nine-years war against France, 1688-97. However he was dism...

Confait, born in the Seychelles , but living in London, had been raised with the name Maxwell but preferred Michelle. Michelle In the...

Associated Press version May 28 1937 In 1937, Edward Dolan (we have only her male name) was living with her husband, Kenneth Ree...

Amancay Diana Sacayán, one of 16 siblings of aboriginal Diaguita descent, was born in Tucumán in northwest Argentina at a time of a stat...

Leynon, from Mexico, was a well-known performer in US female-impersonation nightclubs in the 1950s. When Perry Desmond was hired for a fir...

Frank Felice, from Detroit, moved to Lansing , Michigan in 1972, where she became Terri Williams. She first came to police attention when...

Daya was born and has always lived in Dasna, Ghaziabad , Uttar Pradesh. She lived with other kinnars in a shared bungalow. Although illi...

Tommy Vasu was the first known lesbian to legally own a bar in San Francisco, possibly using the money she made managing the sex work of a n...

Grayce Baxter from British Columbia completed transition in 1985 at a clinic in the US. Her parents had understood her gender dyssonance, an...

Originally from Ohio, Emmon Bodfish was active in the Reformed Druids of North America . He produced the Druid Missal-Any Magazine 1983-199...

Camilla Lyman was born to an old and rich Boston family. Her father, Arthur T. Lyman was well-connected and served as Massachusetts commissi...

Cicero Caetano was born in Bodocó , Pernambuco, Brazil ( map )and moved to Bexiga in São Paulo at the age of 14. Using the name Brenda Lee,...

++ updated August 2013. On 5th November 2009, Destiny Lauren aged 29, was found strangled in her flat in Kentish Town in northern London....

Malcolm Michaels, Jr. grew up in Hoboken and Elizabeth , both in New Jersey. Malcolm would transform to Marsha on the commuter train into N...