In contemporary times, more and more people including celebrities are becoming more true to their sexuality. Gone are the days when dating was a big deal, there has been a paradigm shift with transgender people not feeling whole at birth, gender striving to rebuild gender and showing themselves to be more sexually fulfilled with their gender built. It gets more interesting when we learn that many of our idols are transgender celebrities.
While there is a transgender couple known to celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, and Janet Mock, all of whom adopted their preferred sex in the public eye, there are many more who are not sexually what we know now. . This article has been dedicated to this special category of celebrities.
Here we will introduce you to 12 of these transgender celebrities, a brief detail of each one and their gender transition story.
12 Transgender Celebrities No One Knew About
1. Erika Ervin
Standing at a height of 6ft 8in, Erika is truly tall for a woman, especially considering she is considered the tallest transgender woman in the world.
Erika was born on February 23, 1979 in Turlock, California and grew up to be an American actress, fitness trainer and model known professionally as Amazon Eve. Her career has seen her play recurring roles on American Horror Story: Freak Show and American Horror Story: Apocalypse, just as she appeared on the cover of Zoo Weekly; an Australian magazine.
Ervin underwent gender reassignment surgery (male to female) in 2004 before which she was named William. News about it, however, was made public almost 10 years later when it was revealed on a Swedish TV show after being encouraged by fellow actor Bill Skarsgård.
2. Dr. Marci Bowers
In the transgender world, Dr. Marci Bowers has made many people’s dreams come true, but what many people don’t know about this surgeon with the courage, heart and gifted hands to completely transform a person’s gender identity. , is that she was once a man.
The surgeon was born on January 18, 1958.named Mark Bowers whom she continued to identify until her university studies at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She graduated from college in 1986, after which she went to study under the care of the famous sex reassignment surgeon, Dr. Stanley Biber. She also spent some time in the “Gender Change Capital of the World” – Trinidad, Colorado before moving to Burlingame, California.
Bowers had been married for 11 years to a woman before she underwent surgery in 1998 to become a woman. With his wife, they share three children and are today “closer than their sisters” since they no longer share a marital relationship.
3. Ines Rau
There are transgender celebrities who you would never believe had sex reassignment surgery. These are the ones who have become fully adjusted to their new sex through the reconstructive procedures they have undergone. Ines Rau is one such person and given that she is a model, you wouldn’t think she was a man before.
Ines was born on March 18, 1990 in Paris, France. She was born male and is of Algerian descent. From the age of 16, the model underwent gender reassignment surgery, but never revealed it until she was 24. French luxury magazine OOB.
Over the years, the French-born Algerian model has continuously grown in the industry and even become a voice for the transgender community.
4. Lana Wachowski
Lana Wachowski rose to fame as one of the Wachowski brothers (Laurence/Larry and Andy) credited with directing films like Atlas of the Clouds and The Rise of Jupiter. But after his transition from male to female, they are now content with The Wachowski group.
Lana was born as a boy on June 21, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois where she also grew up. She identified with the girls as a child, and as she grew, the social stigma and discomfort of being in a body that was different from what she had felt led her to sink into depression and having suicidal thoughts. Upon entering the new millennium, Lana began her journey of transition and completed it in 2008.
5. Lilly Wachowski
After Lana’s trans journey, her brother then and now, my sister stood by her side as she transformed into who we now know she is. What we didn’t know was that Andy, now Lilly, was also a woman in a man’s body.
Lilly was born Andy Wachowski on December 29, 1967, in Chicago, Illinois. She has been as successful as her sister Lana in her career. The duo is inseparable and whatever credit one has, so does the other. She came out as transgender in March 2016.
6. Valentijn de Hingh
Behind his glamor and dazzle in the model industry, Valentijn was born as a boy. But like all other transgender people today, she didn’t feel comfortable in the body she was born into. Before her stardom, she was known in Holland as a man but she became a woman in 2007. enjoying her life and career as an IMG model.
7. Zeke Smith
Although it seems like transgender celebrities are male-turned-female-dominated, there are still a few who have never been happier since they started living as men. Zeke Smith (the Survivor contestant) is one of them.
Zeke is a comedian, asset manager, and two-time reality TV contestant. Behind that mustache and green eyes was a girl born in central Oklahoma on January 28, 1985. From an early age, Zeke realized he was gay and came out when he was 15. During his college days, he transitioned and has been living as a man ever since.
8. Chaz Bono
Chaz Salvatore Bono is an American writer, actor and musician born March 4, 1969 to Sonny Bono and Cher, his name is Chastity Sun Bono. Before beginning her music career in 1988, she regularly appeared on her parent’s reality show as a little girl.
Chaz began his journey of transitioning to a path of personal fulfillment in mid-2008. By May 2010, his legal transition was complete and he is now one of the biggest transgender celebrities speaking on behalf of others. Judging by his appearance, many people who didn’t know him before didn’t believe he was previously a woman.
9. Ian Harvie
There aren’t many transgender celebrities who are comedic and good at their act. We probably have Ian Harvie and a few others. Ian is now one of those who speaks out about trans people and takes every opportunity to talk about it.
The comedian was born on May 28, 1968 in Portland, Maine and at the age of 19 identified as gay. At 32, he became trans-male during his transition from female to male.
10. Buck Angel
If you crave surreal content in adult films, then you must have met Buck Angel (born Jake Miller, June 5, 1972) fame as an adult filmmaker. Buck wasn’t always accepted as he is today. Growing up and coming to terms with his true sexual identity, the adult entertainer struggled to find his place in a society that doesn’t welcome people like him. He started working as a model and over time he became more confident to look at what he really feels inside. Buck today looks like a man but has the genitals of a woman.
11. Lucas Silveira
Lucas Silveira is a guitarist, songwriter and singer from Toronto, Ontario. He was born in 1979 and in his youth he lived 6 years in Portugal. For this reason, the musician considers himself a Canadian-Portuguese.
As a child, Lucas knew he was a boy on the inside and at one time asked his mother to buy him a male genitalia. As an adult, he first identified as a lesbian and in 2004 came out as transgender (female to male). In 2010 he started hormone replacement therapy and has been living and looking more like a man ever since.
12. Loren Cameron
This American author and photographer whose works are more popular than her previous gender identity was once a woman. Loren was born on August 28, 1959 in Pasadena, California, where he also grew up as a tomboy. At the age of 16, he came out as a lesbian and was rejected in his hometown. This then led him to travel to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was well received by the lesbian community.
As he got older he felt a craving to look more masculine than feminine and this led to his transition from female to male which she captured with her camera. His journey of self-discovery also marked the start of his photography career as he not only photographed himself but also the transgender community.