Are there any transsexual celebrities

Answer 1

There have been many transsexual persons throughout history but who were not transgendered. Transsexual persons, unlike transgender persons, belong to a gender binary and wish to eliminate incongruity. It is thus unfair to lump those who get surgeries to fit into the existing gender binary in with those who fit outside the gender binary, often by choice.

Here are some of the well-known transsexual persons, most of whom never labeled themselves as transgendered.

Lilli Elbe - First in modern times to receive sex-reassignment surgery. Unfortunately, she died of complications from the surgery within a year.

Christine Jorgenson - First to undergo successful sex-reassignment surgery. She was a GI and a writer as well.

Jan Morris - Writer.

Nancy Hunt - Journalist, writer. She wrote "Mirror Image."

Dr. Marcie Bower - Ob/Gyn and sex-reassignment surgeon.

Lynn Conway - Computer science professor at MIT. She worked at IBM, Xerox, and other major corporations. She also made a few inventions. She helped develop the superscalar architecture used in most modern computers and invented the design rules used for VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) designs. Those design rules greatly reduced the size of IC circuits and increased the available chip space.