A number of noted individuals are or were
transgendered.
Transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transsexuals, transvestic fetishists, cross-dressers, intersexuals, drag queens, drag kings and others.
Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their being transgender.
- Georgina Beyer, New Zealand's (and the world's) first transsexual mayor (1995) and member of parliament (2002).
- Kamikawa Aya, Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
- Lady Bunny[?], drag performer
- Wendy Carlos, American transsexual composer and electronic musician.
- The Lady Chablis, drag queen
- Caroline Cossey, AKA Tula, British transsexual model, author, and Bond girl
- Michelle Dumaresq[?], transsexual professional mountain bicyclist
- Jackie Enx[?], transsexual drummer for the heavy metal band Rhino Bucket[?]
- Dana International, transsexual Israeli pop singer
- Eddie Izzard, a comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"
- Jennifer Jane Leitham[?], transsexual jazz bassist
- Hedda Lettuce[?], drag performer
- Jan Morris[?], transsexual author
- Dr. Renee Richards[?], transsexual, professional tennis player
- RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
- Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen
- Jason Saffer, AKA Jolene Sugarbaker, drag performer and comedian
- Melissa Sklarz[?], the first openly transgender public official in New York State, Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan
- Margaret Stumpp[?], transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc.[?]
- Pussy Tourette[?], drag performer and singer
- Gwen Araujo, US transsexual who was murdered [1] (http://www.gender.org/remember/people/gwenaraujo.html)
- Lili Elbe[?], Danish transsexual, one of the first women to undergo a crude form of sexual reassignment surgery, through five operations which were completed by 1930. Fifteen months after her final surgery, she either died from complications or faked her own death to avoid the media attention. She is the subject of the 1933 book Man Into Woman, although it is likely she was never biologically male, but rather born intersexed, possibly with Klinefelter's Syndrome
- Christine Jorgensen[?], one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952
- Pepper LaBeija[?], Harlem, New York drag queen, subject of the documentary Paris Is Burning[?]
- Glen Milstead, actor and drag performer also known as Divine
- Sylvia Rivera[?], transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall on June 27, 1969
- Brandon Teena, US transsexual who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry [2] (http://www.gender.org/remember/people/brandon.html)
- Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
- Ed Wood, film-maker with transvestite tendencies
See also: List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people, list of heterosexuals
Remembering Our Dead (
http://www.gender.org/remember/index.html#)