A Gender Variance Who's Who

Joe Rushton from Somerset joined the UK Army’s Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1981. He became a Warrant Officer and then Comp...

Bettina was raised in Reims by a Sicilian father and a French mother. He transitioned as Ludwig in the early 1980s. He has made film docum...

Jason McAuliffe was born in Hackney, the third of four sons. Five years later, the parents abandoned their children. Jason and one brother...

Nelly Fonseca Recavarren was born in La Libertad, Peru, in 1922 (although some say 1920 or even 1914). At the age of nine she fell down stai...

Kenneth Tynan was raised in Birmingham and educated at King Edwards School , and Magdalen College , Oxford. He started smoking at grammar sc...

Fatime was the fourth daughter of a Muslim peasant family in Kosova . Lacking a son, the parents deemed the child to be a boy, Fetah. Wido...

Olave St Clair Soames was born in Chesterfield . She was called Olave in that her father, a brewery owner, strongly anticipating a son, had ...