Hi Katie,

You might want to take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w[...]_people

Should at least give you a good start...

Best,
Melody

Here are a few to be going on with:

Chevalier d'Eon

James 'Miranda' Barry

Jan Morris

Jayne County

Wendy Carlos

Dana International

Romy Haag


There is not, as far as I am aware, any firm evidence that J.Edgar Hoover was trans........Truman Capote is supposed to have said something along these lines, is however on record as saying that he'd ," Say anything just to get Hoover mad!"


Lynn H.

Wikipedia , amongst others, will give you a long list of both the living and the dead.

Lynn H.

Of all the famous trannys living or dead. I'd rather be a living one.

When I was aged 8 and as far as I knew I was the only boy in the world who wanted to be a girl when I saw Virginia Prince on a Friday night chat show. During her interview she said she was a "transvestite", that was the first time I'd ever heard the term.
The local library had a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica with articles on transvestism and transgenderism which gave me my first inkling into who and what I was. And also the realisation that there must be loads of other girls like me.
There was no internet or sex education then, well none for me anyway (yes folks it's true) so God bless Virginia Prince and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
That could be a good name for a really crappy band, but I suppose you'd get the arse sued off you!

So often the FTM's are forgotten and maybe not by choice he is famous. Chaz Bono

Hugs,
Marsha

............and while you're about it Katie, don't forget Lynn Conway and her site with its collection of T-people who've 'made it'.


ciao

Lynn H.

I'll go way, way, way old school and say......Joan of Arc. Also, there are legends of a pope actually being a female. They called her "Pope Joan". So, two Joans. Oh, one more thing. Supposedly, there was a colonial governor in the 1700's who apparently lived fulltime as a woman.

Zoe,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w[...]arendon Portrait on page

"Born The Hon. Edward Hyde, the only child of Henry, Viscount Cornbury (1638-1709), eldest son of the 1st Earl of Clarendon, and the former Theodosia Capell (1640-1700), daughter of the 1st Baron Capell and sister of the 1st Earl of Essex, he was the nephew of Lady Anne Hyde, Queen Consort of King James II. His childhood was spent at Swallowfield in Berkshire and he matriculated at Oxford on 23 January 1675, a month after his father had succeeded as 2nd Earl of Clarendon, making him Viscount Cornbury...He became Governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 to 1708...Later historians characterize him as a "degenerate and pervert who is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women's clothes"...Cornbury is reported to have opened the 1702 New York Assembly clad in a hooped gown and an elaborate headdress and carrying a fan, imitative of the style of Queen Anne. When his choice of clothing was questioned, he replied, "You are all very stupid people not to see the propriety of it all. In this place and occasion, I represent a woman (the Queen), and in all respects I ought to represent her as faithfully as I can."

In Canada, there is a major TG group known as The Cornbury Society.

http://www.cornbury.org/