A Gender Variance Who's Who

A.C. (a name assigned by the psychologist) was the ninth of 12 children. The father, who was mean and beat all the children, ran a cotton gi...

Original version October 2011. Initially from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Blunt had been raised as a girl named Annie Morris. The father was abus...

William had been raised as a girl called Sarah Geals, and trained in the family trade of boot-making. In the 1840s Smith arrived in London, ...

Raised as a girl in Warren , Massachusetts, east of Springfield, Addie Walker, the child of a shoemaker, became Mrs Leon Stanley.   In 1876 ...

Buttgereit was born and raised in Berlin, a tomboy who grew up to be a trans man. In 1912, at the age of 21, Buttgereit approached Magnus Hi...

Baer was born in Arolson , Hesse, Germany, to a Jewish family, and was assigned female and raised with the name Martha. After a childhood of...

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

In December 1732 Mr James How took unto marriage one Mary Snapes. Together they had a small nest-egg of £30 (£6,000 in today’s money). They ...

I wrote in June 2015 about Robert Allen who was an assistant to legendary 1940s film directors Michael Powell and David Lean,  transitioned ...

Burnham, originally known as Ellen – her mother’s name - was born in Woodstock, Vermont.  The family moved to Lawrenceville, New York in 185...

In 1961 John David Talbot married a widow, Mrs Eileen Poyntz, matron of an old people’s home in Brighton, Sussex. Eileen, now Mrs Talbot, r...

Elizabeth Bellinger, born 1946, was raised as male, and at age 21, under some pressure, was married to a woman. The marriage lasted for fou...