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.
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Eva Le Gallienne
English-American theater actor, producer, director, translator and author
Rose Zinnia
American poet, fiction writer, essayist, teacher, editor, and designer
Tammy Baldwin
US Senator and Representative from Wisconsin
Laphonza Romanique Butler
US Senator from California
Emily Randall
US Representative from Washington
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.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
21st century American writer
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”
Ariana Benson
African-American southern ecopoet. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2024 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize in Poetry.