A Gender Variance Who's Who

++Original version posted January 2013. George Bertrand was a Maori of Te Ati Awa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Raukawa, and Ngati Porou descent.  A...

Jack Starr grew up on a farm in the US Midwest. His parents encouraged his desire to be an actor, and he studied voice, acting and classica...

Bobby was born in a small fishing village in Scotland. At the age of nine he was put in a children’s home when his mother came down with Hu...

Selena Robbins, now almost forgotten, had already completed transition when she became involved in the New York cinema-theater underground ...

Dirk Luykx was born in New Jersey, the youngest of four boys, and wanted to be a girl since childhood. He went to Cornell University to do...

Part I: before 1945 . 75, rue des Martyres et 40, rue Pierre Fontaine Bibliography Part II: 1945 – 1961 40, rue du Colisée  et Juan-les-...

In the early 1970s, Bebe Scarpi(nato) had graduated from Queens College , New York (which she denied choosing for its name) where she'd ...

There were two members of the Cockettes , the early 1970s San Francisco psychedelic drag troupe, who completed the journey to womanhood. We ...

Jennifer Fox, a Las Vegas stripper and showgirl, was preparing for genital surgery in 1968. She was advertised as “The Myra Breckinridge of ...

After a childhood in Ebeltoft, Jutland, and training as a bookseller in Copenhagen, Sandra Day transitioned in 1969, and has since performed...

Robert Logan Carter was raised in Florida by his great-grandmother and then his grand-mother after his mother committed suicide when he was ...

Kim was raised in the Bronx, New York. By age 14 he was going out in semi-drag. He took up with the young Billy Schumacher (later to become ...

Original September 2010; revised September 2013.  My original version was based simply on a reading of Gayle's autobiography.   Since th...

Cooper was working as a bus conductor in Preston, Lancashire in the late 1940s, where he was generally known as a pansy. On a trip to More...

Sammy Hoover was born in West Virginia, and at 16 joined a carnival. He was too pretty to just sell hotdogs, and was put in the girlie show....

Tony Morrison grew up in Cincinnati, where one of his friends was Robin Price , who also became a professional female impersonator. As a tee...

Marco Antonio Abram was raised in São Paulo. She knew as a teenager that she was trans, and as Claudia began performing in nightclubs and in...