He has collected first-person narratives of transsexual experiences and has done extensive biographical research on trans man Reed Erickson.
Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (17 December 1919 – 1993), was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 by a court on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law.
Barbra Amesbury (born 1948 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario) is a Canadian philanthropist, singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker, who had several Top 40 hits in Canada in the 1970s as Bill Amesbury before coming out as a transsexual and pursuing sex reassignment surgery.
She appeared as a James Bond girl and was the first acknowledged transsexual to pose for Playboy magazine.
Rupe has been cited as a role model by MP Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament.
At the time of the interview, Jorgensen, the first celebrity transsexual, was considered to be the most famous woman in the world, according to critics from The Guardian and Broadwayworld.com and one of the most famous according to other sources, such as The New York Times.
Julia Serano has defined cissexual as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as being aligned", while cisgender is a slightly narrower term for those who do not identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more clinical transsexual).
Some feminists such as Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys believe that transgender and transsexual people uphold and reinforce sexist gender roles and the gender binary, while other feminists, such as Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam, believe that transgender and transsexual people challenge repressive gender norms and that transgender politics are fully compatible with feminism.
One of Brown's inspirations for the protagonist of his novel may have been English model April Ashley, whose autobiography, April Ashley's Odyssey (1982) (ISBN 0-224-01849-3), co-written by April Ashley and Duncan Fallowell and published in London by Jonathan Cape, recounts her experience after she was outed as a transsexual.
Jan Hamilton (born 1964), previously known as Ian Hamilton, a transsexual woman and the first officer in the British Army to complete gender re-assignment
A study of transsexual individuals by neuroanatomist Dick Swaab found male-to-female transsexuals to have a size and number of neurons of INAH-3 closer to a normal female range, and that female-to-male transsexuals have a size and number of INAH-3 neurons closer to a normal male range.
In later life she befriended the transsexual writer Dawn Langley Simmons, who was then living as a man, and eventually left her $2million and the 40 room mansion they shared together.
He freely admits that his first two films are "rubbish", the former of which is "a load of avant garde bullshit", and the second "a seedy art movie; a semi homage to John Waters, featuring gratuitous nudity, violence, and a pre-op transsexual Nazi."
Guests interviewed included photographer of nude models Terry Richardson, Vincent Bethell who launched The Freedom to be Yourself movement, designer Tom Ford, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, the transsexual icon Amanda Lepore and popular gay pornographic actor François Sagat.
Psychological help and support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual people: setting up a helpline (Monday to Friday, 6 – 9 pm: 022 628 5222); office duty of psychiatrists, therapists, and lawyers; Gadu-Gadu Messenger duty; Internet chat duty; support and meeting groups (both for gay, lesbian, and transsexual people, and their relatives).
Lee Si-yeon (born 1979), South Korean transsexual actress and model
In July 2008, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled that a transsexual woman who transitioned to female after having been married to a woman for more than 50 years could remain married to her wife and change her legal gender to female.
Although many transgendered individuals have achieved some success today, Israeli Pop star Dana International and South Korean pop singer Harisu, there is as yet no major transsexual or transgendered star in the film industry.
During the 1950s, the Place Blanche was a centre of Paris' transsexual community, documented in Christer Strömholm's book Les amies de Place Blanche.
Julie Hesmondhalgh, the actress who plays Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, the first transsexual character in a British Soap Opera.
Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan had his second marriage annulled in 1970 on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law.
Julia Serano, transsexual American writer, performer, activist, and biologist
Lee Si-yeon (born Lee Dae-hak, 24 July 1979), South Korean transsexual actress and model
Eugenia: A Man (1988) biography: the story of Eugenia Falleni, and the ‘Man-Woman Case’, about a transsexual accused of murder in 1920s Sydney
The 2007 keynote address was delivered by New Zealander Georgina Beyer, the world's first transsexual Mayor and Member of Parliament.
Coming out of the closet, a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity
Writing in the The Transgender Studies Reader, Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle argue that the book "did not invent anti-transsexual prejudice, but it did more to justify and perpetuate it than perhaps any other book ever written.
Her career began with The Transsexual Empire (a book-length dismissal of transsexual women) and she has often returned to similar efforts.