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Dorchen Richter (1891–1933) was the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender reassignment surgery.  She was one of a number of transgender people in the care of sex-research pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld at Berlin's Institute for Sexual Research during the 1920s and early 1930s. She underwent surgical removal of the testicles in 1922, followed in 1931 by removal of the penis and vaginoplasty. She is presumed to have died in a Nazi attack on the Institute.   Richter was born to a poor farming family in 1891, named Rudolph, and raised as male. Early in childhood, Richter displayed a "tendency to act and carry on in a feminine way". At the age of 6 years, she apparently tried to remove her penis with a tourniquet. Using the name Dora, she began wearing women's clothing and presenting as female, working under her birth name as a waiter in Berlin hotels during the busy summer season, then living as female the remainder of the year. She was arrested from ...

Terri Rogers (1937 – 1999) ventriloquist, designer of magical tricks. Ivan Southgate was raised in  Ipswich . He worked as a supporting act in Music Hall in the 1950s, and was a highly proficient ventriloquist. He transitioned to Terri Rogers with surgery on the National Health Service in the early 1960s ++at Charing Cross Hospital. She was a highly respected designer of magical tricks for, among others,  David  Copperfield ,  Paul Daniels , and continued to perform as a ventriloquist. She was in the 1968 review,  Boys Will be Girls  at the  Theatre Royal Stratford East , and worked the UK cabaret circuit. Her career eventually took her to Las Vegas and US television. The one reflection that she had once been a man was that she gave her dummy, Shorty Harris, a deep male voice. Her husband was Val Andrews. She died after a series of strokes. *Not the artist. Terri Rogers and Martin Breese.  Secrets: The Original Magic of Terri Rogers . Londo...

Patricia Morgan (1939 - ?1986) sex worker, business woman. Henry Peter Glavocich was born in Jersey City, and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. His mother left his father soon after his birth because he refused to feed them. At fifteen months Henry was put in an orphanage. When his mother remarried, she took him out of the orphanage, but he did not get on with his stepfather, and stayed with aunts and uncles. At age eleven, after a mutual undressing with a girl downstairs, the juvenile authorities put him in a boys home. Each time he ran away they put him in the home’s jail, where he was raped. After three years he was released to live with an aunt, where he was raped by her husband. Later, living with another aunt, he tried on his female cousin’s clothes. At fourteen he started shining shoes, first in Hoboken, and then on 42 nd  St in Manhattan. He became friends with Shelley, a male prostitute. He made good tips from gay men but refused their sexual offers. At fifteen he ran away...

Andr�a's Story "Once upon a time, there was a little girl......Ooops..... boy" May I introduce myself, ANDR�A COLLIAUX, a french girl who was born in 1966 in Paris. I should rather say that Bruno was born in 1966 in Paris.  Andr�a was born the 12th of April 2001 in Brighton in the U.K! I've written a book " Carnet de bord d'un steward devenu h�tesse de l'air " -  Editions Michel Lafon  (�Diary of a steward who became a stewardess") in the year that I had my sex reassignment.  And I would like to explain to you the reason why I decided to do this kind of "coming out", writing a book, doing TV shows, posing for famous photographers - and participating in charity events such as the REACT exhibition in Paris this year, giving newspaper and magazine interviews, etc. Sex reassignment in France is a real mess!  France is far away from England, or the United States for example with transgender persons.  For...

Colette Berends (Netherlands) [ October 13, 1934 - April 23, 2012 ]   This page is dedicated to Colette Berends, and contain articles and stories about her remarkable life and wonderful art. The page is now being augmented, as we collect weblinks, articles and photographs that tell her story and show some of her artistry.   As a beautiful young entertainer in the Netherlands, Colette began her transition from MtF during her early twenties. For fifteen long years she worked in showbiz, working '"everywhere" in Europe and North-africa, "swallowing hormones and saving for operations". Colette completed her TS transition in 1971, undergoing SRS by Dr. Georges Burou in Casablanca, Morocco. She went on to further fame as an entertainer, and has travelled over much of the world. Later in life Colette became the owner-operator of a beauty salon in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Always a very creative person she also began her explorations in textile artistr...

Let Me Die A Woman is 1978  documentary on the work of sex-change specialist Dr.Leo Wollman, including interviews with Dr.Wollman and a few of his patients including  transgender  rights activist Deborah Hartin ,  with an illustrated lecture on the various aspects of transsexuality plus actual footage of a sex-change operation, which is what gives the film its notoriety.  Let Me Die A Woman is   produced by exploitation film auteur Doris Wishman.

Jack and Lee is a Transgender Love Story. Jack is well known Weightlifter came out gay. He partner lee is Transgender Woman. Lee dead 2004 from Alzheimer's Disease. Jack came out Gay Bodybuilder. He meet in Gay Bars in 1950's. Lee was Corpuscular US Army. Lee Served in Korean War. Jack was Boxer than turned Weightlifter. Soon after they meet in bars they become gay lover.  Lee have secret. Lee secret he was transgender. he fell was woman trapped in men body. Is starred he when to hairdresser ball as dress as woman. Jack did not like Lee dress as woman. Soon after Hairdresser ball Lee stated as Woman all time. Jack confront lee about he Crossdressing lee cries he told him about he secret he fell was woman trapped in men body. Lee told Jack he is woman and he wanted Sex Change Operation. Lee have Sex Change in 1967 by John Hopkins University in . Jack marries lee 1972 jack cheated lee with another man because he still insist a gay man and lee is woman now. He do not have vaginall...

Leuraine Lee and Lenette Lee they was Half Brothers become Half Sister. They was known as Lee Brothers.  They received medical support from the University of Minnesota and  Lauraine  had SRS age 26 whilst  Lenette  followed six months later in 1969, soon after her 21st birthday. Given the early date, they are probably among the first thousand American Post-SRS women.   half-sisters  Lauraine Lee and Lenette Lee  had an unexpected problem when a reporter from a small local newspaper knocked on their door after noticing a minor court procedure changing their names - from Cary and Burt. Born brothers, the two sisters had mutually decided that they were female and transitioned to live full-time as women. A comprehensive article in the Aberdeen South Dakota Daily News  is the fact that both siblings suffered terribly from their surgeries, with Lauraine reportedly requiring 8 additional surgeries to correct problems after SRS.

Frankie Jaxon (1895 – 1953) female impersonator, singer, actor Frank Devera Jackson was born in Montgomery, Alabama,. He and his sister were orphaned. They were then raised by a widowed aunt in Kansas City, Missouri. At age 19, the aunt died, and the rest of the family moved to Chicago. From age 15 Frankie Jaxon, as he became, toured as a singer and as such joined the Henry McDaniel Minstrel Show. He worked in medicine shows in Texas and then worked regularly in Atlantic City and Chicago. He did a stint in the army 1918-19, and was promoted to sergeant before being honorably discharged. Within months he was starring; he sang, danced, and performed as a female impersonator in Atlantic City. He returned to his family in  Bronzeville  ( more ), Chicago’s  African-American district, which he made his home base. He supplemented successful home-town shows with short tours by small companies of black performers. In 1925 he joined  Mae Dix  (1895 – 1958) and...

Maryam Khatoonpour Molkara  ( Persian :  مریم خاتون ملک‌آرا ‎; 1950 – 25 March 2012) was a campaigner for the rights of  transsexuals  in  Iran . Designated male at birth, she was later instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a  Fatwā  enabling  sex change  operations to exist as part of a legal framework. As early as 1975, Molkara wrote letters to  Ayatollah Khomeini , then in exile in  Iraq , asking for religious advice about being assigned a wrong gender at birth and having to break out of it. In 1978, she traveled to  Paris , where he was then based, to try to make him aware about transgender rights. After the Islamic Revolution, she was fired from her job at television, injected with male hormones against her will and detained in a psychiatric institution. Because of good contacts with religious leaders, among them  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , she was released. Molkara continued to campaign for being abl...

From the November 1, 1979 Jet Magazine article written by D. Michael Cheers. Deep thanks to Roberta Black for scanning it. Note how OUR media used the correct pronouns several decades before the 2001 AP Style Book mandated it, and treated Justina with respect. Justina Williams always knew that she was different. Ms. Williams, 30, was born Johnny Williams, a man with a gender disorder. She said that although she had a man's genitalia, psychologically she was a woman. Further, she had glandular bust tissue, and chromosomally and hormonally she was female. "From my early childhood years I was more feminine than masculine. I just naturally assumd that I was a girl," she told JET. "I used to fight with my sister to see who would comb the doll's hair. I never played with games or toys associated with boys." While on sick leave two years ago from her job as an assembly line worker for General Motors' Cadillac Motor Car Division in Detroit, she went to Ne...

Henry Peter Glavocich was born in Jersey City, and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. His mother left his father soon after his birth because he refused to feed them. At fifteen months Henry was put in an orphanage. When his mother remarried, she took him out of the orphanage, but he did not get on with his stepfather, and stayed with aunts and uncles. At age eleven, after a mutual undressing with a girl downstairs, the juvenile authorities put him in a boys home. Each time he ran away they put him in the home’s jail, where he was raped. After three years he was released to live with an aunt, where he was raped by her husband. Later, living with another aunt, he tried on his female cousin’s clothes. At fourteen he started shining shoes, first in Hoboken, and then on 42 nd  St in Manhattan. He became friends with Shelley, a male prostitute. He made good tips from gay men but refused their sexual offers. At fifteen he ran away and as Pat became a male prostitute. Six months later he star...

Lana is Black Transsexual Woman appear Sally Jessy Raphael Show episode "Beautiful Women Who Have A Secret" and update episode "I'm a Boy who wants to be a Girl". She appear other Transsexuals episodes of Sally Jessy Raphael.  She is black Transwoman. She start her life out as a gay man like me. Like Me and Lana we do not feel like belong Gay Community. Lana Life before she was a Woman she was well known model and dancer. She was preformed for Janet Jackson Music Videos back in 80's. Before she transition into woman she hooked drugs and she change life stay off the drugs became Woman she mean to be. She is Black Post-Op Transwoman have the Vaginoplasty Surgery. Sally ask her question she do regret her Sex Change Operation Lana say no. Lana is Hero to Black Transgender Woman like me it take courage to out as Transgender Woman. This is Pre-Internet Transsexual Age it was hard transgender people get info how Transsexual to get hormones, Where you go to get Vagi...

S he was born Keith David Hull in St Albans on May 25 1946 and grew up in nearby Harpenden. When Keith was seven, his parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses. In consequence he left school after taking just four O levels, his parents maintaining that further education was pointless as the end of the world was nigh. Aged 21 Keith Hull became a sales rep at Hoover, and married Marilyn, with whom he had twin sons and a daughter. Promoted to area manager, he became head of Saga DIY Retail and then sales and marketing director of the Hestair Group. As a child Keith had dreamed of being a girl and enjoyed dressing up in girls’ clothes, often playing the female roles in plays that he and his friends put on. When he grew up he tried to live a conventional life as a businessman, husband and father, but the strain began to tell. “I didn’t know what was wrong with me for a long time,” Stephanie Lloyd recalled. “I knew I wasn’t gay and when I met the girl I married and everything was all right I...