Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen is considered to be the first person to have undergone gender reassignment surgery. She traveled to Denmark for the procedure, which at the time was the only country where these surgeries were performed. After she returned to New York, she landed on the front page of New York Daily News and became an instant celebrity, later working as an actress and singer.
Alexandra Billings
In Transparent, Alexandra Billings played the role of Davina, the second character on a TV show that is openly trans. Billings also appeared in Romy and Michelle: In The Beginning, How To Get Away With Murder, ER, and Grey’s Anatomy. In 2016, she received the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award. dont