Kathie Barb

Linda A. Simpson

Linda A. Simpson was a Transgender Law Enforcement Officer. She was born in October 1953 at Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Westmoreland County as Rick Simpson. She started Crossdressing at age 5 years old. She graduated from Mount Pleasant High School at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania in 1971.  From 1970 and 1980 she was in Rock Band. 1970 she met partner her named Jeri. In 1977 She became Police Officer to prove she was is Macho Man in reality she was hiding her Gender Identity. In 1982 she married her partner Jeri. In 1994 she came out to her wife as Transgender. In 1995 she came out to Police Force. In 1996 she retired of Police Force. 1997 she had Sex Reassignment Surgery in Montreal Surgeon Yvon Menard. Today lives with her wife and help other Transgender Woman out. She also have Friend is another Transgender Woman named Kathie Barb.

Melanie Anne Phillips

 After a degree at the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California,  directing two feature films before the age of 30: Brothers of the Wilderness, 1984, and The Strangeness, 1985, recording many hours of music, marrying as a man and fathering two children,  Melanie became involved with the International Foundation for Gender Education and worked with them to produce a VHS Tape on developing a female voice which focuses on voice resonance rather than pitch. In 1991, Melanie took a break from film-making and, with her long-time writing partner Chris Huntley, developed the Dramatica Theory of Story, for which they had first laid the foundations while still at college together. She also began her three-year transition that concluded with surgery with Dr Biber in Trinidad, Colorado. She kept a daily journal during transition which is available online. In 1994 she set up the first online transgender support site, and became one of the most cited advisors on developing a female voice. After three years of full-time effort, the first version of Dramatica (Amazon reviews, WIKIPEDIA) was released. It is one of the most sophisticated software packages for fiction writers, which included a long manual, and supporting videos. Melanie also teaches courses in Dramatica theory through UCLA. In October 2006 in an essay on her Heartcorps site, and reprinted on Gender Life Forum, she wrote: "I've unintentionally perpetrated a great disservice.  I've given the impression the anyone can learn to sound completely female in voice as I have.  That's why I created the voice video I've been selling for about ten years.  Now, I'm not so sure. And in my diary, without ever considering an alternative, I've presented myself as just another transsexual and documented my story in the hope it might smooth the way for others.  But now I wonder if it doesn't really foster false hope. … out of all those who have sex reassignment surgery, only a very few have female minds.  All the rest, no matter how feminine they have become, have male minds - they don't just think like men, then think as men. ... After all, those who speak in a female voice are as rare as those with female minds, in my experience.  Sure, anyone can learn to be more feminine in their speaking, but to actually alter the timber of the voice so it is rich and full but female in resonance, that may be beyond the ability of the rank and file transsexual."However she does insist:"Now, granted, a woman born into a male body is no more entitled to sex change surgery than any man who wanted it.  And the standards that they use to determine if you can receive surgery are ignorant, outdated, and laughable, if they weren't so cruel. Honestly, SRS should be available to anyone who wants it, as long as they are certified sane.  No RLT should be required.  I don't know of a single individual (though there must be some) who determined to have the surgery and then changed their mind because of problems with RLT.  And I don't know of anyone who had the grit to go through with the surgery who didn't have what it needs to get through RLT. … Again, there is nothing better or worse about having SRS if you are of male or female mind.  And the achievements of anyone from that community who has a female mind and a collection of female physical traits may not be as heroic or laudable as it first appears.  They simply may have had more to start with and an easier path because there was less to alter. Ultimately, I think of female minded post-ops as intersexed women rather than transsexual.  In some, they are close enough to the range of normal male physical form with fully functioning testicles and no ovaries that no medical professional would class them as hermaphrodites.  And yet, possessing many of the traits above, they are truly intersexed in all ways except the reproductive organs." On her web site Melanie describes herself as "parent of two, still married to my spouse of thirty years but living with another woman, my soul mate, for the last eight years". Andrea James' TS Roadmap is dedicated to Melanie for her inspiration.

Tara M. Taylor

Tara M. Taylor is Transgender Woman have Sex Reassignment Surgery with Dr Pierre Brassard

in Montreal Quebec. March 1 2001 she have vaginoplasty surgery. She first realization that what wanted to be a girl happened at age nine when her puberty started. She remember getting erections and the feeling of testosterone invading my body. She did not like feel good at all! Obviously, her brain and body were expecting estrogen. Her mother has known about Transsexualism  since she started dressing in her clothes when She was nine years Old. She's always been supportive and accepting of Tara.

Photo of Tara

36 days post-op. You can still see the suture lines outside the labia
majora and I'm still swollen. The scar on my tummy is from back surgery.

 

6 months post-op. The redness and swelling are gone.

I'm dilating with the largest stent (1 1/2" width) and Lubrication

Deborah Hartin

Deborah Marie “Debby” Hartin (September 15, 1933 – March 15, 2005) was an American lecturer and activist. Her 1970 divorce following a gender transition made national headlines, and she went on to appear on numerous talk shows. Hartin was selected by The Book of Lists as one of ten renowned trans women, and she was featured in the 1978 documentary Let Me Die a Woman. Prior to transition, Hartin served in the United States Navy starting in 1953. While stationed in Pensacola, Florida, Hartin married, and the couple had a daughter in 1955. The marriage led to a separation in 1957, and after moving to Casablanca in 1966, Hartin transitioned in 1970. Her divorce that year made headlines, one of the first publicized divorces due to transition. In 1971, Hartin brought suit against The Bureau of Records and Statistics within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for refusing to update her sex designation on her birth certificate. Under pressure to accommodate trans citizens, the Bureau had voted unanimously to omit a sex designation from the amended birth certificates of transsexual people. Hartin's suit Deborah Hartin v. Director of the Bureau of Records and Statistics was dismissed in 1973. Hartin told reporters she planned to convert to Judaism in 1976. Soon after, she stopped making media appearances.

Julia Grant

Julia Grant was the first transgender person to have her transition chronicled on a mainstream UK television documentary in A Change of Sex. In George and Julia, the first of five hour-long film documentaries directed by David Pearson for the BBC, her story attracted an audience of nearly nine million viewers. The series was transmitted on BBC2 as A Change of Sex, and described by Pearson as "intimate, frank and observational". Additional episodes were broadcast until 1999, charting new stages in her life. Grant survived bowel cancer, but suffered from multiple health problems, and died on 2 January 2019, aged 64, following a short illness.