This page is dedicated to the outstanding Transpeople thoughout history. Some are famous, some represent the best of us, and a few are infamous. From gender warrior activists and doctors to notorious criminals, TGs have, and are continuing to make their mark on human history.
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Phyllis Randolf Frye: Gender Warrior
A native of Texas, Phyllis Frye was the all-American boy – an Eagle Scout and commander of her high school ROTC class. But when she came out as transgender in 1972, Frye lost her military career and her first marriage ended. She transitioned from male to female in 1976. As a result, she was dismissed from her job as an engineer.
The following year, out of need to survive, she went back to school to study business administration and law at the University of Houston’s Law Center and College of Business. As a student, Frye successfully lobbied every elected official in Houston to get rid of the city ordinance against crossdressing that made her subject to arrest on a daily basis.
In 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1985, Frye, then out as transgender, was elected as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Convention. She was instrumental in encouraging the Texas Democratic Party to adopt a GLBT-rights supportive plank in its official platform in 1983.
Frye is the founder and former executive director of the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy Inc. She also founded the Transgender Law Conference. In 1995, Frye began the “Phyllabuster” e-mail network that keeps thousands of activists around the world informed about related legal and political issues related to transgender people, as well as lesbian, gay and bisexual issues.
Frye remains a practicing attorney in Houston, where she lives with Trish, her legal spouse of over 30 years.
In 2009, Texas A&M University named an award after Phyllis, which is given to those who kick down the doors of oppression.
Phyllis has been a role model for me(Anja) since I was a teenager, and we are all better off because of the work that she does. Thank you Phyllis!
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Katherine Fiona Cummongs
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Dr. Marci Bowers She is a successful gynocologist who currently operates a surgical practice in Trinidad, Colorado. Bowers is viewed as an innovator in the field of SRS. as well as a pioneer, being the first of us to be performing SRS surgery. Bowers has been referred to as the "Rock Star" of transgender surgery.
Bowers graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1986, where she was both class and student body president. Bowers later went on to study under the late Dr. Stanley Biber , a surgeon who performed over 4,000 transgender surgeries(including Anja's!), and is credited for giving the tiny town of Trinidad the title, "Sex Change Capital of the World."
Prior to moving to Trinidad, Bowers had a successful practice at the PolyClinic in Seattle, and has delivered over 2000 babies. Bowers has also served as Obstetrics and Gynecology Department Chairperson at Swedish (Providence) Medical Center, and was named the only physician member of the Washington State midwifery Board. She was named as one of "America's Best Physicians" for the 2002/2003 awards, and is a member-elect of the European Academy of Sciences.
When Biber retired in 2003 at the age of 80, Bowers took over his practice, and since then, has done over 600 sex reassignment surgeries, performing about five operations per week for an average of 130 MTF surgeries per year at Mt. San Rafael hospital. The SRS surgeries bring an estimated $1.6 million per year to the hospital, in the tiny town of Trinidad. Trinidad would likely not have a hospital if it were not for the revenues generated by Bowers and her predecessor.
Bowers appeared in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entitled: "Ch-Ch-Changes", which focused on transsexuality. She also served as a consultant for the episode. Bowers has also been a popular guest on the talk show circuit, making appearances on Oprah and The Tyra Banks Show, among others.
Bowers was also the star of a six-part BBC series entitled: "Sex Change Hospital" The show featured her performing SRS, as well as covering the back stories of her patients.
While Biber and Bower's work has earned Trinidad it's dubious distinction, not all of Trinidad's residents are happy with the town's title of "Sex Change Capital", Terry Keith, a pastor for the All Nations Fellowship church, commented: "Our reputation as sex-change capital ofthe world has brought shame and reproach on the community," in an interview with the Pueblo Chieftain in 2005.
That same year, two pastors petitioned to have the clinic shut down, citing a study done by Johns Hopkins University that they claimed proved surgery was not successful in treating gender identity issues The petition was rejected. Bowers countered that the church misrepresented the study's data,explaining "If you look at the actual study itself, the satisfaction rates and happiness rates after surgeries were overwhelmingly positive, their interpretation of the study was that the respondents—the patients themselves—couldn’t possibly be accurate about what they were feeling, because they were crazy in the first place".
There’s been nothing like it since—and it’s very important to point out that the study that was cited was from 1972.
At the age of 19, Bowers first attempted the transition from man to woman, but with a lack of family support and funds, was unsuccessful Twenty years later, she successfully completed the procedure. Bowers married eleven years prior to her surgery, and remains married to her spouse. They have three children, and while they no longer have an intimate relationship, Bowers says they are "closer than sisters
During her spare time, Bowers likes to play golf, read, cook and travel to Seattle to visit her children.
She was also shown on a Discovery Health Channel one-hour special about two transsexual women transitioning and their stories, "Switching Sexes: The Aftermath"."Transitioning is like walking on lily pads: You have to be carefulwith each step, or you're going to sink. It takes a lot of money,courage and a certain amount of planning, I'm just glad I can help." -Marci Bowers
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Dr. Stanley Biber
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Dame Edna Everidge Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself). In 1979 Dame Edna was the subject of a BBC Arena mockumentary: La Dame aux Gladiolas.
While Humphries freely states that Dame Edna is a character he plays, Dame Edna consistently denies being a fictional character or drag performer, and refers to Humphries as her "entrepeneur" or manager. Indeed, Dame Edna has frequently said that the thought of a man dressing up as a woman for entertainment purposes is repulsive.
You can visit Dame Edna at her official website:
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Calpernia Addams
A Modern Day Christine Jorgensen by Christine Beatty Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.
Calpernia Addams is a woman you can?t help but notice. Even among the remarkable landscape of transsexual women, she stands out. In some ways she is a new millennium version of Christine Jorgensen. She has adapted marvelously to her unexpected role on The Big Stage, and she has used that position to educate others and advance the cause of transgendered people everywhere. Calpernia never wanted the kind of attention she received. She was happy to win Tennessee Entertainer of the Year; she hadn't counted on figuring prominently in one of the most sensationalized murder trials of 1999, nor on being the cover story of a New York Times Magazine article in May of the following year, nor on the controversy that swirled around that story. Her response to the publicity circus included her autobiography, Mark 947, and her role in making Showtime's hit movie "Soldier's Girl." Between these two works we gain remarkable insight into Ms. Addams. From her current life one would never guess this woman?s humble and decidedly bizarre past.
Mark 947 refers to the Bible passage ?And if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out,? a dramatic metaphor for her sex change. In this book Calpernia candidly details her Nashville upbringing in a strict and fanatical Fundamentalist Christian family. Until she turned eighteen she?d never seen a movie, gone to a schoolmate?s sleep-over, rollerskated, or swam in a "mixed sex" pool. She was denied most of the things average children and teenagers take for granted. What she got instead was church and the Bible, dogma that conflicted with her incipient gender issue. Her only escape was the U.S. Navy, into which she enlisted upon reaching adulthood.
In her stint as a Navy medic, in Desert Storm and on the Aleutian isle of Adak, her eyes opened to all that she?d missed, and to her burgeoning gender and sexual identity. By the time her enlistment was over and she?d returned to Nashville, she found her niche in the local gay/drag community. Soon she took her first steps into performing and quickly worked her way to being a favorite at Nashville?s largest showbar. It was at this nightspot that she met Army private Barry Winchell, and from there blossomed the tragic love story that inspired "Soldier's Girl." Soldier's Girl is an incredibly moving account of star-crossed lovers, of Calpernia and Barry. When Barry met Calpernia, he knew she hadn?t always been a girl. Despite his heterosexual past and her pre-operative status, Barry found himself attracted to her compelling femininity. The movie brilliantly depicts some of the emotional complications faced by lovers when one is a pre-operative transsexual, including Calpernia's initial suspicion that he's using her to explore his bisexuality.
However, some of Barry's fellow soldiers saw no beauty in the relationship, and he had to endure months of homophobic taunts and an unofficial witch hunt in direct violation of the military "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. And on the Fourth of July weekend, 1999, Barry was murdered by a fellow soldier with a baseball bat as he slept. To the film's credit, the villains of this story are painted as complex and pitiful characters rather than two-dimensional bogeymen.
A favorite when it premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, "Soldier's Girl" captures the relationship between Barry and Calpernia with sensitivity and romance. It also hints at the political nightmare that was to follow, one Calpernia found herself centered within.
In the May 2000 issue of the New York Times Magazine, writer David France penned a story that caused great controversy. Essentially, it stated that two gay rights groups, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the Lesbian and Gay Coalition for Justice, convinced Calpernia to describe herself as Barry's "boyfriend" so the message about the failure of "Don't Ask" would not be diluted by the complexity of the situation. The tag line for the story read ?In order to turn murdered soldier Barry Winchell into a martyr for gay rights, activists first had to turn his girlfriend, Calpernia Addams, back into a man. Naturally, these groups took umbrage and then they took action, drafting a letter denouncing the article, a missive that Calpernia, in the grief and confusion of her loss, signed without reading too carefully. As she explains on her website, www.calpernia.com, she is grateful to both David France for getting Barry's story out on a mass level and the activist groups who comforted her at a time when she had little to lean on.
After the story was publicized, Calpernia was bombarded with offers to turn the tragedy into a film. For a year and a half, she rejected proposals, until she met producers she believed would tell the story without making it lurid or sensationalized. She found that production company in Showtime, and she worked with the cast and crew to make the story as accurate as possible. Then she hit the road with the film, appearing at many film festivals, putting a human face on transsexualism and educating people. Only when one considers how painful Calpernia?s loss was and how difficult it must be to constantly relive it in order to bring transgender issues and the full weight of the tragedy into public consciousness, only then can this woman?s inner strength and resilience be fully appreciated. The parallels between Calpernia and Christine Jorgensen are irresistible: hauled under the public spotlight, both handled their fame and notoriety with dignity and aplomb. Over these years, Calpernia has become quite the spokeswoman for the greater transgender community, as did Christine before her.
Calpernia, along with her good friend, Andrea James continue to produce informative and entertaining media on transsexualism. They represent us in a positive manner always. They both are positive role models for us all.
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Roberta Perkins
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Roberta Muldoon
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Anne Lawrence Anne Lawrence is a sexologist and former anesthesiologist who runs a medical resource site for trans women at annelawrence.com. Dr. Lawrence also self-identifies as having a sex-fueled mental illness called "Autogynaphilia."
She was forced to resign for examining an unconscious patient for signs of ritualized genital modification,.the bulk of Dr. Lawrence's personal and professional life has been dedicated to promoting this ersatz diagnosis.
Dr. Lawrence has since worked closely with Ray Blanchard of Toronto's notorious Clarke Institute. Blanchard invented this diagnosis in 1989. Dr. Lawrence has also worked closely with another Blanchard protege, psychologist J. Micheal Bailey of Northwestern University.
Dr. Lawrence called Bailey's 2003 book The Man Who Would be Queen "a wonderful book on an important subject,". It should be noted that many who read it found it to be one of the most defamatory and inaccurate books on gender variance since 1979.
Dr. Lawrence was allegedly compelled by this sex-fueled mental illness to undergo several feminizing procedures, and subsequently self-identifies as a transsexual. In fact, Dr. Lawrence has claimed defensively to be a "real transsexual,"
Many consider "autogynephilia" to be an obscure and outdated diagnosis favored by those who prefer the term to the less socially desirable mental illness the APA calls "transvestic fetishism.
Anne Lawrence frequently suggests that transsexualism is clinically similar to people who wish to have a limb amputated.
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Christine Jorgenson (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was the first widely-known individual to have Sex-Re-assignment Surgery (SRS). Jorgensen was born George William Jorgensen, Jr., and grew up in the Bronx, NY.Christine later described herself as having been a "frail, tow-headed, introverted little boy who ran from fistfights and rough-and-tumble games".
A media sensation developed on December 1, 1952 when the New York Daily News carried a front-page story (under the headline "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty") announcing that in Denmark, Jorgensen had become the recipient of the first "sex change". This claim is not true, however, as the type of surgery in question had actually been performed by pioneering German doctors in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Danish artist Lilli Elbe and "Dorchen", both patients of Dr. Magnus Hirshfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin, were known recipients of such operations in 1930-31. What was different in Jorgensen's case, however, was the added prescription of hormone therapy.
When Jorgensen returned to New York in February 1953, she became an instant celebrity. There has been serious speculation that Jorgensen leaked her story to the press, but in any case, the publicity created a platform for Jorgensen, who used her publicity for more than fame. New York radio host Barry Gray asked her if 1950s jokes such as "Christine Jorgensen went abroad, and came back a broad" bothered her. She laughed and said that they did not bother her at all. However, another encounter demonstrated that Jorgensen could be offended by some queries: Jorgensen appeared on an episode of The Dick Cavett Show in which the host offended her by asking about the status of her romantic life with her "wife", and she walked off the show; because she was the only scheduled guest, Cavett spent the rest of that show talking about how he had not meant to offend her.
Following her vaginoplasty, Jorgensen planned to marry John Traub, a labor-union statistician, but the engagement was called off. In 1959, she announced her engagement to Howard J. Knox. The couple was unable, however, to obtain a marriage license because Jorgensen's birth certificate still listed her as biologically male. In a report about the broken engagement, The New York Times noted that Knox had lost his job in Washington, D.C., when his engagement to Jorgensen became known.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Jorgensen toured university campuses and other venues to speak about her experiences. She was known for her directness and polished wit and once demanded an apology from Spiro Agnew, the U.S. vice president, when he called another politician "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party".
Jorgensen also worked as an actress and nightclub entertainer and recorded a number of songs. In her nightclub act, she sang several songs, including "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and at the end made a quick change into a Wonder Woman costume. Warner Communications, owners of the Wonder Woman character's copyright, demanded that she cease and desist from using the character, which she did, substituting a new character of her own invention, "Superwoman" which was marked by the inclusion of a large letter 'S' on her cape. Jorgensen continued her act, performing at Freddy's Supper Club on the upper east side of Manhattan until at least the Fall of 1982. In 1984, Jorgensen returned to Copenhagen to perform her show and was featured in Teit Ritzau's Danish transsexual documentary film Paradiset ikke til salg (Paradise not for sale).
Jorgensen said in 1989, the year of her death, that she had given the sexual revolution "a good swift kick in the pants". She died of bladder and lung cancer at age 62.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, during his earlier career as a calypso singer under the name 'The Charmer', recorded a song about Jorgensen, "Is She Is Or Is She Ain't".
Jorgensen is referred to in the 1994 movie "Ed Wood" as the original inspiration for the movie that became "Glen or Glenda?" She is also the subject of a 1970 film The Christine Jorgensen Story. Jorgensen was also referred to in the "Quantum Leap" episode "What Price Gloria", when Sam has leapt into a female secretary in 1961 (all his prior 'leaps' having been into the bodies of men). When he reveals to a cocky boss that he is in fact a man, the boss asks him if he "did a Christine Jorgensen".
In Christine Jorgensen Reveals, a stage performance at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Jorgensen is portrayed by Bradford Louryk. To great critical acclaim, Louryk dressed as Jorgensen and performed to a genuine recorded interview with her during the 1950s while video of Rob Grace as the comically inept interviewer, Nipsey Russell played on a nearby black-and-white television set. The show went on to win Best Aspect of Production at the 2006 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and it ran Off-Broadway in 2006. The LP was reissued on CD by Repeat The Beat Records in 2005.
Transgender activist and theorist Susan Stryker is currently producing a documentary Christine in the Cutting Room a feature-length film about her career as a filmmaker and photographer. It is in pre-production, with production scheduled for 2009.
Renee Richards
An opthimologist, author and former professional tennis player. In 1975, Richards underwent Sex-Reassignment Surgery. She is known for initially being denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, citing an unprecedented "women-born-women" policy. She disputed the ban, and the New York State ruled in her favor in 1977. This was a landmark decision in favor of transsexual rights.
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Jahna Steele
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Kate Borenstein
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Brandon Teena
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Gwen Ariello
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Machine Gun Kelley
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Caroline Cossey
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Andrea James Andrea James has spent her career crafting communication that makes a difference, and now she's applying her expertise in Hollywood. After graduating with a Master’s Degree in English from University of Chicago, she wrote ads for ten years at top Chicago agencies. Her ads for blue-chip clients premiered on the Super Bowl and other major television events and were frequently among audience favorites.
Having established a loyal following on the internet, Andrea branched out to film and television with her business partner Calpernia Addams. In 2003, they created Deep Stealth Productions with the goal to counter the dismal depiction of trans people in the media with more accurate and positive portrayals. Andrea produced Deep Stealth's sold-out V-Day LA 2004 benefit production of "The Vagina Monologues," under the direct guidance of playwright Eve Ensler and mentor Jane Fonda. The event was featured in the documentary Beautiful Daughters.
Andrea teamed up with Calpernia and the Logo Network to produce and star in, "Trans American Love Story". The reality series is similar in premise to NBC's "the Bachelor".
Andrea has worked as an activist since the 1990s. She founded GenderMedia Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for TransYouth Family Allies, a non-profit that helps minors and their families with issues related to gender identity and expression.
Andrea continues to work for change through educating the public, and is a very positive role-model for transwomen everywhere.
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Scott Turner-Schofield
Scott Turner Schofield is a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy who most people think is a gay teenager. He is also a performance artist living and working nationwide from inside the Deep South. Not surprisingly, his work centers on contradictions and comedy. Aside from producing the fabulous work of national gender-focused artists in Atlanta (T Cooper, S. Bear Bergman, Athens Boys Choir, TEAM GINA), Schofield has been touring two original solo performances Underground Transit and Debutante Balls to colleges, festivals, and theaters nationwide since 2001. These autobiographical works challenge fundamental gender assumptions with everyday stories of searching and isolation, the joy of finding oneself, and the prizes of living your own authenticity. They have been applauded by press, academics, activists and artists alike for meeting queer and mainstream audiences alike with humor and compassion. (Except for that one time when he was censored by a venue in Charlotte, NC, who said a transman taking off his shirt is obscene because "he hasn't always been a man". Still, that First Amendment skirmish ended in a great community discussion, and the audiences agreed, naked vulnerability is powerful education, not obscenity.) Underground Transit takes audiences underground with an almost-Homecoming Queen turned gender renegade. This edgy yet accessible spoken word roll through one Southerner's budding trans identity set against the cityscape of the New York City subway features rock 'n'roll with a touch of drag, and incredible poetry that draws you in for the ride. Debutante Balls is a theatrical stand-up comedy dance through the fascinating culture of the Southern Debutante Ball. Schofield's wicked sense of self-aware humor and poetic sensibility guide audiences gently (or is that genteel-ly?) through the many ways he "came out" into Southern Society (as a lesbian, radical feminist, and finally, as a transgender man), poking fun at gender roles and sniffing the vapors of nostalgia gone-with-the-wind in these modern times. These shows have seen over 50 full productions since 2001, at such venues as: 7 Stages, Atlanta GA; the 2003 National Transgender Theater Festival, New York City, NY; the Alternate ROOTS Annual Meeting; the Chicago Single File Festival, 2004; FUSE Festival : the Celebration of Queer Culture in NYC, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY; Jump-Start Performance Company, San Antonio TX; The National Performance Network Annual Meeting; The National Queer Arts Festival FRESH MEAT series 2005, San Francisco CA; The Pat Graney Company, Seattle WA; the Philadelphia Fringe Festival; New York City's Fresh Fruit Festival; the Yale Cabaret; and the Seen+Heard Festival 2004, Atlanta GA. They are a wild success on the university circuit, where, in addition to performing, Schofield has lectured and facilitated workshops on the lived realities of gender identity at over 30 institutions.
In 2007, Schofield became the first openly trans artist to be commissioned by the National Performance Network for his solo show Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps. This piece is the last installment of an autobiographical performance trilogy, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure solo work combining aerial acrobatics and multimedia storytelling for an unrepeatable evening of gender exploration. Literally: in just the way human beings unconsciously choose how we see gender based on our own cultural cues, audiences for this show choose Schofield's narrative path from female-to-male, choosing what stories they will hear, step-by-step. Since 2006, Schofield has received 3 Community Fund Grants from the National Performance Network to raise community awareness of gender and sexuality through art in Seattle, San Antonio, and Miami, FL. He is the youngest-ever recipient of a Tanne Foundation Award for commitment to Artistic Excellence, and in 2007 was awarded a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in Acting.
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Jameson Green
Educator, Author, Speaker, Advocate. Internationally recognized expertise. Jamison Green writes and speaks eloquently about the various aspects, issues, and challenges of transgender and transsexual experience, especially those associated with the female-to-male transsexual process.
In the early 1990s, Green worked for the passage of San Francisco's Transgender Protection Ordinance and has since consulted with numerous corporations, governments, educational institutions, professional groups (physicians, attorneys, legislators, psychologists, and clergy) and policymakers to ensure civil equality for gender-variant people.
He is widely considered one of the best educators and policy advisors on transgender and transsexual issues. His corporate management background equips him well to relate to the concerns of business in relation to diversity and transgender inclusion, and he is adept at enabling people to feel comfortable as they come to understand transgender people.
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James Berry
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Eddie Izzard
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Billy Tipton
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Ben Berres
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Mike Hernandes
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Lilli Elbe
Lilli was the recipient of the first well-documented case of transsexual surgery in human history.
She was born Einar Mogens Wegener, and was a successful artist for most of life.
In 1930 Elbe went to Germany for surgery, which was only in an experimental state at the time. A series of five operations were carried out over a period of two years.
The first surgery, removal of the testicles(orchiectomy) was made under the supervision of sexologist Magnus Hershfeld in Berlin.
The other of Elbe's surgeries were performed by Dr. Warnekros in the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic. The second operation saw the removal of the penis, and transplanting ovaries that were taken from a 26-year-old woman.
The third and fourth operations were to remove the overies, due to rejection and other serious complications.
The fifth operation was to transplant a uterus and was intended to allow Elbe, then nearing the age of 50, to become a mother.
Elbe died in 1931, just three months after her fifth operation due to complications . Her cause of death is believed to have been transplant rejection from the implanted uterus. She is buried in Dresden, Germany.
At the time of Elbe's surgery, her case was widely sensationalized in the newspapers of Denmark and Germany. The King of Denmark invalidated Wegener's marriage to wife Gerda in October 1930, and Einar managed to get her sex and name legally changed. She was also granted a Danish passport as Lili Elbe.
She also stopped painting believing it to be something that only Einar did.
Phyllis Randolf Frye: Gender Warrior
Dr. Marci Bowers
Dame Edna Everidge Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself). In 1979 Dame Edna was the subject of a BBC Arena mockumentary: La Dame aux Gladiolas.
Calpernia Addams
Christine Jorgenson (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was the first widely-known individual to have Sex-Re-assignment Surgery (SRS). Jorgensen was born George William Jorgensen, Jr., and grew up in the Bronx, NY. Christine later described herself as having been a "frail, tow-headed, introverted little boy who ran from fistfights and rough-and-tumble games". 
Renee Richards
Jahna Steele
Kate Borenstein
Caroline Cossey
Lynn Conway
Andrea James Andrea James has spent her career crafting communication that makes a difference, and now she's applying her expertise in Hollywood. After graduating with a Master’s Degree in English from University of Chicago, she wrote ads for ten years at top Chicago agencies. Her ads for blue-chip clients premiered on the Super Bowl and other major television events and were frequently among audience favorites. 
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