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Annie Choi
Christine Wang

 

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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>