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Film and TV director, screenwriter, producer, comic book writer, video game director, video game writer [487] Annie Wallace: b. 1965 British she/her Actress, first transgender person to portray a regular character in British soap opera history [488] Syrus Marcus Ware: b. 1977 Canadian and American He/him
Jazz Jennings, a South Florida teen, was assigned male at birth.Aged 4, Jennings was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in childhood, making her one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as gender dysphoric. [3]
Transgender people also made groundbreaking strides in entertainment. In 2001 Jessica Crockett became the first transgender female actress to play a transgender character on television, on James Cameron's TV series Dark Angel. [111] [112] [113] In 2004, the first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues was held.
In 1980, West Germany passed a law regulating the change of first names and legal gender, the "Gesetz über die Änderung der Vornamen und die Feststellung der Geschlechtszugehörigkeit in besonderen Fällen, (Transsexuals Act – TSG) or, "Law concerning the change of first name and determination of gender identity in special cases (Transsexual law – TSG)".
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. [3] [4] [5] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, [6] [7] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. [8]
Nava Mau (born May 14, 1992) is a Mexican actress, known for appearing in the Netflix British dark drama series Baby Reindeer (2024), [2] and the HBO Max comedy Generation (2021).
Xenogender [21] [49] can be defined as a gender identity that references "ideas and identities outside of gender". [ 26 ] : 102 This may include descriptions of gender identity in terms of "their first name or as a real or imaginary animal" or "texture, size, shape, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics".
Chelsea Chanel Dudley [3] (born September 1, 1988), [4] better known by her stage name Chanel West Coast, [3] is an American television personality, rapper, singer and actress. She came to prominence for her roles in MTV 's Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness .