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Holly White
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Francis Rambough was born in Honolulu. When she was 21, she met Baby Martell (Freddy Figueroa) who invited her to New York and introduced her to the Jewel Box Revue, where she worked as Halle Loki. She studied voice with a jazz musician, and took ballet lessons. As Holly White, she got a contract in Berlin, and especially after her transition to female, worked mainly in Europe. She was friends with Sonne Teal and missed being in the same plane crash in that she was booked in Israel instead. She worked at Le Carrousel with Bambi and Coccinelle. She did two seasons at Finocchio’s - they had seen photographs and sent for her. “I wanted to face the world as a female. I was never interested in a male life. I lived on until I could reassign myself to a more female persona. I also worked in Europe after my change. If I was known as a transgendered person, it was OK, if not, OK also. I was, and am, an individual. I don't try to hide my past or my history. I am comfortable in my skin.” She...
Carlotta
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Carlotta AM (born 2 September 1943) is the stage name of Carol Byron, also known as Carol Spencer and credited briefly on television as Carole Lea, a transgender Australian cabaret performer and television personality. Carlotta began her professional career in 1959 as a Bridgette Bardot-like performer, as an original cast member of the long-running Sydney-based male revue Les Girls (pronounced lay-girls) cabaret show, which had an international following, in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta performed spot-numbers as a singer and comedian, and eventually became the show's compere and lead attraction. Although best known as a cabaret performer, in 1974 Carlotta appeared on the television series Number 96 as Miss Robyn Ross, in a comedic story line that saw her coming out as transgender to the surprise of her boyfriend Arnold (Jeff Kevin). Her appearance on the show marked the first time worldwide that a transgender character was portrayed by a transgender actor. As a TV presenter,...
Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael
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n 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster. During the 1970s energy crisis, Carmichael promoted a prototype for a low-cost fuel-efficient car via Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, which car was never produced, and fled with investor money. She was captured in 1989, and served 18 months on fraud charges. Early life Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael was a transgender woman who before transitioning was known as Jerry Dean Michael since birth in 1927 through the late 1960s. She grew up in Jasonville, Indiana, later moving to Detroit, Michigan with her family. Relationships According to the FBI, Carmichael married four times while identifying as Jerry Dean Michael. She was charged with desertion for leaving her first wife, Marga, whom she met while stationed in Germany, and their two children. In 1954, she married a woman named Juanita, with whom she had two children before their relationship ended in 1956. In 1958, she marri...
Dawn Langley Simmons
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Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (16 October 1922 – 18 September 2000) was an English author and biographer.[3] Born as Gordon Langley Hall, Simmons lived her first decades as a boy. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, whom she considered an adoptive mother, and who was the subject of a biography written by Simmons in her later years. Early life Simmons' parents were servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the English estate of biographer Harold Nicolson and his novelist wife, Vita Sackville-West.[6] Simmons was born in Sussex as Gordon Langley Hall to Jack Copper, Vita Sackville-West's chauffeur, and another servant, Marjorie Hall Ticehurst, before they were married.[6] Although she claimed to have been born with an unusual condition causing the swelling of her genitals with the result that she was mistakenly identified as a boy, Charleston author Edward Ball's book Peninsula of Lies (2004) states that she was born male. As a child, Simmons...
Alan Hart
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Alan L. Hart (also known as Robert Allen Bamford Jr., October 4, 1890 – July 1, 1962) was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist. Hart pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection; he worked in sanitariums and X-ray clinics in New Mexico, Illinois, Washington, and Idaho. For the last 16 years of his life, he headed mass X-ray programs that screened for tuberculosis in Connecticut.[1] X-rays were not regularly used to screen for tuberculosis prior to Hart's innovation, and are still used as a gold standard today, which has led researchers to believe that he has saved countless lives.[2] As a fiction author, Hart published over nine short stories and four novels, which incorporated drama, romance, and medical themes. Circa 1917, Hart became one of the first trans men in the United States to undergo a hysterectomy.[3][4] Early life Hart as a young child. Hart was born on October 4, 1890, in Halls Summit, Coffey County, Ka...
Michael Dillon
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Laurence Michael Dillon (1 May 1915 – 15 May 1962) was a British doctor, author, Buddhist monk and the first known transgender man to undergo a phalloplasty.[1] Born in Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, he and his elder brother moved to Folkestone as children following the death of their mother from sepsis. They were subsequently looked after by their two aunts.[2] Their father, heir to the Dillon baronetcy of Lismullen in Ireland, died in 1925. Although he had been assigned female at birth, Michael Dillon never thought of himself as a girl, and later wrote about his despair at being perceived as such. In 1934, he began studying at the Society of Oxford Home Students at the University of Oxford. He joined the women's rowing team in the position rowing stroke, later being elected club president. He graduated in 1938 and started working in a laboratory near Bristol.[2] Around this time, Dillon became aware of a doctor who had been studying the effects of testosterone on female patients,...