April Ashley

April Ashley, MBE (born; 29 April 1935 – 27 December 2021) was an English model and restaurant hostess. She was one the first British people to be outed as a transsexual, this was done by the Sunday People in 1961.

She was also known as one of the first British people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, after racing driver and World War II fighter pilot Roberta Cowell, and the ninth in the world to have the surgery.

Ashley died on 27 December 2021 in London, at the age of 86.

 Out-of-wiki websites 

 April Ashley's Odyssey  The text and pictures from her 1982 book 
 April Ashley Photo Gallery Tribute 
 How Prescott made a woman out of me - Daily Mail profile, 3 June 2006
 April Ashley Documentary 

Category:1935 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Transgender women
Category:English LGBT people
Category:English models
Category:English movie actors
Category:Actors from Liverpool
Category:Writers from Liverpool