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Naaz Joshi

Naaz Joshi is India’s first transgender model and an international beauty queen, as well as a transgender rights activist

Jin Xing

Transgender Chinese dancer, choreographer television host

Christine Jorgensen

American transgender trailblazer

Abby Stein

American Jewish trans rights activist

Anastasia Le

Anastasia Le is a Vietnamese Australian transgender woman whose work spans social justice and economic equity.

Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.

torrin a greathouse

American poet

Jack Bee Garland

Assigned female at birth, Jack Bee Garland lived their life presenting as male, including serving as a medic during the Spanish American War and the aftermath of the San Francisco 1906 earthquake.

Joy Ladin

Joy Ladin’s return to Yeshiva University as a woman after receiving tenure as a man made her the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. Her memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award, and winner of a Forward Fives award.