page_title: Trans woman
section_title: Notable trans women
hierarchical_section_title: Trans woman / Notable trans women
caption_attribution_description: Featured Session on transgender topics featuring Andrea James and Calpernia Addams at the 2006 Out &amp; Equal Workplace Summit.
context_page_description: A trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women may experience gender dysphoria and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and sometimes sex reassignment surgery, which can bring relief and resolve feelings of gender dysphoria. Trans women may be heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, asexual, or identify with other terms.
  The term transgender woman is not always interchangeable with transsexual woman, although the terms are often used interchangeably. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes different types of gender variant people. Trans women face significant discrimination in many areas of life, including in employment and access to housing, and face physical and sexual violence and hate crimes, including from partners; in the United States, discrimination is particularly severe towards trans women who are members of a racial minority, who often face the intersection of transphobia and racism.
context_section_description: Marja-Sisko Aalto, Finnish former Evangelical-Lutheran priest
  Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, autobiographer, entrepreneur, activist, fiddle player
  Aderet, Israeli pop singer
  Rebecca Allison, American cardiologist and past President of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
  Nadia Almada, Portuguese-British Big Brother UK 2004 winner
  Barbra Amesbury, Canadian singer-songwriter
  Charlie Jane Anders, writer and co-editor of the blog io9
  Enza Anderson, Canadian media personality and political activist
  Erica Andrews aka Erica Salazar, Mexican-born American international and national beauty pageant title winner, drag performer, actor and entrepreneur
  Anna Anthropy, American video-game designer and critic
  Gwen Araujo, American teenage murder victim
  Patrícia Araújo, Brazilian actress and model
  Alexis Arquette, American actress, musician, member of the Arquette family of actors
  Nina Arsenault, Canadian writer, actress, columnist and sex-trade worker
  April Ashley, British model
  Estelle Asmodelle, Australian actress, author, dancer, and transgender activist
  Mianne Bagger, Danish-Australian professional golfer
  Jenny Bailey, British politician and mayor
  Christine Beatty, American writer, musician and transgender activist
  Danielle Bunten Berry, American computer programmer and game designer
  Georgina Beyer, New Zealand politician, first transgender person globally to become a mayor (1995) and a member of Parliament (1999)
  Alexandra Billings, American actress
  Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress
  Alejandra Bogue, Mexican actress and TV host
  Marci Bowers, American gynaecologist and sex-reassignment surgeon
  Wendy Carlos, American electronic music pioneer
  Carmen Carrera, American reality television personality, model, actress, and burlesque performer
  Candis Cayne, American actress and entertainer
  The Lady Chablis, American actress, drag performer and writer
  Parinya Charoenphol, Thai muay thai boxer, actress and model
  Jamie Clayton, American model and actress
  Roberta Close, Brazilian model
  Coccinelle, French actress, entertainer and transgender activist
  Canary Conn, American musician and author
  Raewyn Connell, Australian sociologist
  Joanne Conte, American politician and activist
  Lynn Conway, American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist
  Caroline Cossey (a.k.a. Tula), English model
  Jayne County, American rock singer
  Roberta Cowell, First legally recognized male to female transgender person in the UK (1951), memoirist
  Laverne Cox, American actress
  Katelynn Cusanelli, cast member on MTV's The Real World: Brooklyn, and the first transgender individual to star on the show.
  Florencia De La V, Argentine actress
  Michelle Duff, Canadian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
  Michelle Dumaresq, Canadian downhill mountain bike racer
  Lili Elbe, Danish artist, society figure and early recipient of sex reassignment surgery (1930)
  Eli Erlick, American trans activist
  Bülent Ersoy, Turkish singer of Ottoman classical music
  Bibiana Fernández, Spanish presenter and actress
  Ina Fried, American journalist and senior writer for CNET Networks
  Chiya Fujino, Japanese fiction author
  BB Gandanghari, Filipina actress and commercial model
  Francis García, Mexican performer and actress
  Gigi Gorgeous, Canadian YouTube personality, model, and actress
  Laura Jane Grace, lead singer and guitarist for punk rock band Against Me!
  Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, African-American activist
  Anna Grodzka, Polish politician
  Harisu, South Korean entertainer, actress, and singer
  Choi Han-bit, South Korean model
  Ai Haruna, Japanese singer and television personality
  Lauren Harries, British media personality
  Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of Interplay; video game programmer
  Adela Hernandez, first transgender person elected to political office in Cuba
  Rita Hester, African American murder victim
  Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek model
  Stephanie Hirst, British radio DJ
  Dana International, Israeli pop singer
  Kim Coco Iwamoto, American politician
  Juliet Jacques, British journalist
  Andrea James, American filmmaker and activist
  Caitlyn Jenner, American Olympic athl
caption: American activist trans women Andrea James and Calpernia Addams.
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