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Kim Coco Iwamoto Born on the island of Kauai, Kim Coco Iwamoto is a Japanese-American Hawaiian politician. Her election as a trans woman in November 2006 made her, at that time, the highest ranking openly transgender elected official in the United States.

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Stephanie Hirst, a famous English transgender radio and TV presenter best known for hosting Hit40UK and the weekday breakfast show Hirsty's Daily Dose, was nominated in 2017 for a British LGBT Award in the 'Top 10 LGBT+ Celebrity' category.

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Mya Taylor   For the first time in history, a trans person has won a major film award. Mya Taylor, star of the Indie film Tangerine, won Best Supporting Female during the 2016 Spirit Award. Laverne Cox congratulated Mya, personally, on her monumental win.

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Eli Erlick

Like so much of the larger LGBTQ movement, many of the most passionate transgender advocates in the trenches are millennials. Eli Erlick is a 19-year-old California activist and founder of Trans Student Educational Resources. Hear her roar.

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Kate Craig-Wood is a British IT entrepreneur, co-founder and managing director of Memset Dedicated Hosting. She is listed 4th among the 25 most influential women in the UK for Information Technology and known for promoting transgender acceptance.

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April Ashley is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. After reassignment at age 25, she changed her name to April Ashley and became a successful fashion model, appearing in Vogue.

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Flor de la V, a trans actress and television personality has become a household name in Argentina. Through her advocacy and proud trans visibility, she has contributed immensely to advancing the equality movement in Argentina.

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Peche Di Transgender model, dancer, actress and videographer, Peche Di started the first transgender modeling agency, Trans Models NYC, in New York City. After winning several pageants, she became a contestant on America’s Next Top Model.

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Munroe Bergdorf is a British activist and the first transgender model in the UK to represent the World's Largest Beauty Company; L'Oréal. After a racial altercation, however, she was dropped by the brand.

In February 2018, she was appointed as an LGBT adviser to the British Labour Party but resigned the following month citing tabloid pressure.

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Martine Rothblatt

On the Forbes list of the most successful self-made women in America, Martine Rothblatt has a net worth of nearly $400 million and the distinction of being the highest paid female executive in the US.

An incredibly successful entrepreneur and executive with a remarkable career, she founded United Therapeutics, PanAmSat, Sirius Radio, GeoStar and the Human Genome Project.

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Talulah-Eve Brown Fashion and television star Talulah-Eve shot to fame when she becoming Britain's Next Top Model's first transgender contestant and underwent full gender reassignment surgery after filming of the show had wrapped up. She became the only transgender model to star at London Fashion Week in 2017, walking for Giles Deacon, who designed Pippa Middleton's wedding dress. An outspoken trans activist, Talulah has lashed out at the lack of diversity within the fashion industry and was invited to speak at Oxford University.

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Christine Jorgensen Born in 1926, Christine Jorgensen became the first person to publicly transition from male to female in the United States. Born in New York, she was an Army clerk pre-transition. In the early 1950s, she learned of a Danish doctor, Christian Hamburger, who was experimenting with gender therapy using hormones. She began hormone therapy shortly thereafter and then had Dr. Hamburger perform reassigment surgery in Denmark a few years later. Upon her return, she made national news with the headline "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty" in the New York Daily News. She became a tabloid sensation overnight. 

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Renee Richards, a former pro tennis player who experienced success on the pro circuit in the 1970's, became widely known following male-to-female reassignment surgery when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open. It was that year The United States Tennis Association began requiring genetic screening for female players. She challenged this policy and the New York Supreme Court ruled in her favor. This became a landmark case for transgender rights. As one of the first professional athletes to identify as transgender, she became a spokesperson for the community. After retiring as a player, she coached Martina Navratilova to two Wimbledon titles.

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Tracey Norman

Tracey Norman is an American model and first African-American transgender woman model to appear on a box of Clairol hair-coloring in the 1970s and modeled for and been photographed for such publications as Essence, Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar India.

In 1980, her career went cold after her gender identity was disclosed. However, after a biographical piece was written about Norman in 2015, Clairol announced in 2016 that Norman would become the face of their 'Nice 'n Easy Color As Real As You Are'campaign stating, "Clairol is honored to bring back Tracey Norman as a woman who no longer has to hide her truth."

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Meet transgender television celebrity Rebekah Shelton, formerly known as Rodrigo Lopes from the hit American show Big Brother. This beautiful Brazilian was a student in Leeds when she entered the Big Brother house as Rodrigo Lopes and stayed until day 93 - the final - finishing in fifth place. Rebekah underwent gender reassignment surgery after Big Brother in 2014.

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Parinya Charoenphol, also known by the stage names Parinya Kiatbusaba and Nong Toom, is a transgender Thai boxer, former Muay Thai champion, model and actress.

Accenting a very successful fighting career, Parinya has enjoyed a flourishing film and television career not only playing a pivotal role in the 2006 superhero action film Mercury Man but appearing as a guest star on the SBS television series "World Record Pizza" and Rallarsving (Sweden).

Her life as a trans woman is part of the book Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender by Maverick House Publishers. Additionally, her story was included in Julina Khusaini's 2003 National Geographic documentary Hidden Genders.

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Candy Darling was an American actress, best known as a Andy Warhol Superstar and transgender icon. When she died, the world still wasn’t ready to accept her as a woman. Her fame and legacy has been kept alive through the trans community and now she lives on as an inspiration to trans women everywhere.