Transgender
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TRANS FOUNDER OF JUXTAPOSED CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATION
Stone Mountain, GA
Tracee McDaniel was born on January 20th 1967 in Sumter, South Carolina. After her father’s passing, her mother raised Tracee and her brother on her...
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TRANS LEGAL ACTIVIST, FAITH RECONCILER
Washington D.C., DC
Shannon Minter was born on Valentine’s Day, 1961. He grew up female in a close-knit family and faith community in East Texas. In high school,...
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Founder, GenderTalk radio
Los Ranchos, NM
Nancy Nangeroni was born in Boston, raised in Milton, Massachusetts, and graduated from MIT in 1976 with a degree in electrical engineering. After graduation, she...
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Transgender former Baptist minister and her wife
Kentwood, MI
Julie Nemecek was born John Nemecek on March 28, 1951, in Chicago, while her father was a Baptist seminary student. The oldest of four children,...
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Trans woman, healthcare worker, advocate for affirming end-of-life care
Grand Junction, CO
Lisa Oakley was born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, Lisa’s mother wanted Lisa to play sports and have male friends, but Lisa was...
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Trans health advocate; creator of TRANScestors anthologies
Yuba City, CA
Jude Patton was born in St. Louis, Missouri, assigned female at birth, and adopted at seven months old. Perhaps because his parents had experienced difficulty...
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PHILANTHROPIST, MILITARY MUSEUM FOUNDER, LGBTQ+ ADVOCATE
Chicago, IL
Born on August 13, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. Col. (IL) Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army, as well...
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transgender hairstylist, sex workers’ advocate
Washington D.C., DC
Valda Prout was born in 1935 in Boston. She was named Mallory at birth, and her life has been a long, eventful and colorful dance...
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Transgender biologist and author
Kapaʻa, HI
Joan Roughgarden was born on March 13, 1946 in Peterson, New Jersey. Her father worked as a missionary and construction engineer for the Episcopal Church,...
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Drag performer, community activist, fundraiser, and author
San Francisco, CA
Donna Sachet was born Kirk Reeves in 1954, in South Carolina. Kirk’s young life was marked by a violent, alcoholic father, and a mother afraid...
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"Mother" to many; transgender rights advocate
Downey, CA
Guest interviewer Rain Valdez recorded Karina Samala’s oral history for OUTWORDS in 2022. Rain Valdez is an actress, writer, producer, and out and proud Filipino...
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Co-Founder of TENTS, Founder of Ground Floor Theatre
Austin, TX
Lisa Scheps was born on October 2nd, 1958 to an upper middle class Jewish family in Houston, Texas. Her parents signed her up for a...
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transgender Buddhist teacher
Elmsford, NY
Hoshina Seki was born in 1941 in New York City. Three years earlier, her father, a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist minister, had founded the New York...
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Academic, Theorist, Honorary founder of Transgender Studies
Aptos, CA
Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone was born in New York City on June 1st, 1954. Sandy and her sister grew up in a conservative Jewish family...
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trans academic, filmmaker, and artist
San Francisco, CA
Susan Stryker was born into a White working-class family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on July 7, 1961. Her father was an army Sergeant, and his...
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"Drag Queen Story Hour" host
New Port Richey, FL
Stephanie Stuart was born in a strawberry patch in Plant City, Florida on December 30th 1965. Growing up, she always knew she was different and...
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