A Gender Variance Who's Who

Original: May 2011 .  William Ross Ball was raised, one of four children in Chilliwack , British Columbia. Their alcoholic father killed him...

 

​W is an anonymising initial issued by the judge, William Charles , in the case, and does not reflect their real names.  We have no other na...

A black trans girl, for whom we are not given a name, not even a doctor’s pseudonym, was in the New Jersey foster care system as her mother...

Lance had, almost since his first year, loved to parade in the shoes and clothes of his mother and sister. He also loved jewelry and makeup...

Sampaio, from Aquiraz in the province of Ceará, in the north-east of Brazil, was using the name Valentina by age 10. She was accepted as ...

Willi Pape was raised in the Berlin suburb of Spandau .  His father owned a wooden-shoe factory and his mother was a dressmaker. He had sai...

Charles Schultz was born in West Seattle. By early teenage, Schultz had acquired a trunk full of female clothing, and often rode on the cit...

Part 1: Youth and Copenhagen Part II: fame and marriage Part III:  The geography of Charlotte McLeod in New York, 1957 Charles McLeod Jr...

Vega was born in Santiago, Chile, with a father who owned a printing business. At age 8, teachers discovered that Vega had an aptitude for ...

Sözeri was born in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1982 the family moved back to İzmir (Smyrna). Ayta had confirmation surgery in her early 20s. ...

Golden was born near Philadelphia, the child of an electronics engineer and a high-school guidance secretary. The family was gay-friendly, ...

Michelle was born in Salinas in the Canelones Department of Uruguay. She transitioned at age 15 with the support of her mother. Accepte...

Avelar was born  in Chalatenango Department , in the north of El Salvador, just before the Civil War ,. From an early age, despite being d...

Phillip Forrester was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. He was in drag at age 5, and as a child sang on Savannah radio. At Halloween ...