Transgender memoirists

American media personality and retired decathlete

Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)

English writer, humorist and actor (1908-1999)

Christine Jorgensen was an American actress, singer, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.

American human rights activist and politician (born 1990)

American transgender activist and entertainer

Welsh historian, author and travel writer (1926–2020)

American economist & academic

American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist

American transgender Internet personality

Israeli-American author, rabbi, activist (1991-)

English model and actress

Puerto Rican actress and former Warhol superstar (1946–2015)

US tennis player and ophthalmologist

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist

LGBT rights activist from the United States

American musician

English model, actress, author, and activist (1935–2021)

British journalist and activist for transgender rights

American comedian, playwright, feminist, television writer and director

Spanish transgender vedette, sex worker, singer and actress

American social media personality

American author and activist

American author

(1957-2016), Afroamerican drag queen

American autobiographer

writer

Dutch writer

American nonbinary writer and activist

American author, playwright, poet and painter

Swedish memoir writer

author (1937-2017)

British journalist, author, cultural and football critic, as well as activist