Notable Transgender Individuals
Thomasine/Thomas Hall
-Thomasine/Thomas Hall was an intersex individual who was granted the privilege of dressing in both feminine and masculine gender clothing in colonial Virginia.
<http://www.mohicanpress.com/wwwboard/messages8/17269.html>
Sarah Edmonds Seelye (Frank Thompson)
-Sarah Edmonds cross-dressed during the Civil War and served in the U.S. army as Frank Thompson. She later married and became Sarah Edmonds Seelye and had three children.
<http://www.civilwarhome.com/edmondsbio.htm>
Dr. Alan Hart (Alberta Lucille Hart)
-Lucille was a female-to-male transsexual who became the well-recognized physician and novelist Dr. Alan Hart.
<http://www.ochcom.org/hart>
Billy Lee Tipton (Dorothy Lucille Tipton)
-Tipton was a jazz musician who lived as a man for 56 years and had children. After he died, he was revealed as a woman.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton>
Renee Richards (Richard Raskind)
-Renee Richards is a female-to-male transsexual and a champion tennis player. She went through a highly publicized sex reassignment surgery, and afterwards wrote several books about her experience and the effects of her decision.
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7277665>