A Gender Variance Who's Who

Valérie Wilson was an early transitioner. By her late teens she was living as female and performing at L’Alcazar, a nightclub competing with...

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 version May 2013 Galiaci grew up São Paulo state, in the village of Bocaina which at that time had only 10 streets. Father was a ...

 Tom’s father, Benjamin Davies, was the minister at Caersalem Baptist Chapel in the coal-ming village of Abergwynfi , Naeth Port Talbot, Sou...

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

The boy who later grew up to be Latina Seville was pretty and grew neither body nor facial hair, and because of this was called ‘fruit’ or ‘...

Dolly was born and raised in Turin. When she grew up she went to Paris, and eventually got taken on at Madame Arthur and then Le Carrousel ....

Lorena Capelli was born in Rio de Janeiro, and was an early transitioner. Her father initially beat her, but, being in the Brazilian diploma...

At the beginning of 1964 the then 19-year-old, Brigitte Bond, was signed as a singer by Tom Littlewood of the 2i’s Coffee Bar  in London’s S...

Wolters wore girls’ clothing until the start of school, and still then during vacations: she was called Hanne by the farm personnel and stil...

Spong was the son of the licencee of the Six Bells, Kings Road, Chelsea. On 7-8 th  December 1941 he was a private in the Royal Army Ordnanc...

Part I: Parachutist, soldier, pilot Part II: performer, wife, property investor ++February 2022: added comment by Walter Alverez. Rees then ...