A Gender Variance Who's Who

Micky Jacob (1884 – 1964). Pen name: Naomi Ellington Jacob. Aka Jake. Born: Ellington Gray in Ripon, Yorkshire. Jacob began her working l...

Douglas Byng was born in Nottingham. His father was managing director of the Midland Counties Bank. He started in show-biz as a theatrical...

Poppaea Sabina In the Roman year AUC 818, the year that in the later Christian calendar would be numbered 65, Nero, in the 15th year of ...

A wealthy woman from the island of Lesbos who lived in the second century CE. His name is really Megilla, but he prefers the masculine form....

Is sex change surgery (vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, electrolysis, mastectomy, hormone therapy) body modification?  Most trans...

An actress, young, beautiful and Irish, Lavinia had never performed in London, where she lived, but had had leading parts at various provinc...

Delbert Eugene Hill, from Philadelphia, was a fire eater, who also did bits of magic tricks and some whip cracking. He went to England in ...