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Actress, first transgender person to portray a regular character in British soap opera history [505] Syrus Marcus Ware: b. 1977 Canadian and American He/him Artist, created first sexual health guide for trans men and the first parenting course for trans people in North America. Scholar of trans studies and Assistant Professor. [506] Lachlan Watson
Christine Jorgensen (/ ˈ dʒ ɔːr ɡ ən s ən /; May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr., [4] was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
The 1950s and 1960s saw some of the first transgender organizations and publications, but law and medicine did not respond favorably to growing awareness of transgender people. The most famous American transgender person of the time was Christine Jorgensen, who in 1952 became the first widely publicized person to have undergone gender-affirming ...
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. [3] [4] [5] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, [6] [7] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. [8]
Wendy Guevara has become the first transgender woman to win a reality television series in Mexico.. The social media influencer was a contestant on La Casa de los Famosos Mexico, which translates ...
Social media influencer Wendy Guevara made history Sunday when she became the first transgender woman to win a Mexican reality TV series.
Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.. In the 1960s, while working at IBM, Conway invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
Hunter Schafer said in a new GQ cover story that she has been strategic in trying to shift the public’s focus away from her gender identity as a transgender person. The “Euphoria” favorite ...