Who are some famous transsexuals?

Answer 1

Well known transsexual women include:

Lilli Elbe - First transsexual woman in modern times to get sex-reassignment surgery. However, the surgery caused her to die within a year. Surgeons didn't know about the vasculature (blood vessel arrangement) of the uterus then, nor did they know much about organ rejection. So she probably died of gangrene or septic shock.

Christine Jorgensen - The first TS woman to have successful sex-reassignment and to become widely known for the surgery.

Dr. Rene Richards - First transsexual woman to compete in the US Tennis Open as female. They refused to allow her to play at first but she successfully sued the league.

Nancy Hunt - TS woman writer.

Lynn Conway - Computer science professor at MIT who started her transition while working at IBM. They fired her as being "unfit" because she was a transsexual woman. Then she worked at Xerox. As a part of her work in the computer hardware industry, she invented design rules to create smaller integrated circuits, making VLSI technology possible, and she played a major role in inventing superscalar technology that is inside modern processors starting from the Pentium processor.

Georgina Beyer - First transsexual MP in New Zealand.

Dana International - Stage name for Sharon Cohen, the Israeli transsexual pop singer. She is most famous for winning the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Diva." She also released 8 albums and 3 additional compilation albums.

Marcie Bower - First transsexual sex-reassignment surgeon.