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Lili Elbe was the first well-known recipient of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, in Germany in 1930, the first being Dora Richter. She was the subject of four surgeries: one for orchiectomy, one to transplant an ovary, one for penectomy, and one for vaginoplasty and a uterus transplant. However, she died three months after her last ...
Mixed martial arts career controversy. Fallon Fox came out as transgender on March 5, 2013, during an interview with Outsports writer Cyd Zeigler and Sports Illustrated, following her two initial professional fights in the women's division. [ 5][ 6] Controversy swelled over confusion with the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) and ...
Veronica Ivy (born 1982), formerly Rachel McKinnon, is a Canadian competitive cyclist and transgender rights activist. [1] In 2018, she became the first transgender world track cycling champion by placing first at the UCI Women's Masters Track World Championship for the women's 35–44 age bracket.
Chris Mosier (born 1980) is an American advocate for transgender rights and competitive triathlete, duathlete, and racewalker.He started his athletic career before transitioning, started his transition in 2010, and in 2015 earned a spot on the Team USA sprint duathlon men's team for the 2016 World Championship in the men's 35-39 age group division, making him the first known out trans athlete ...
v. t. e. Gender-affirming surgery for female-to-male transgender people includes a variety of surgical procedures that alter anatomical traits to provide physical traits more comfortable to the trans man's male identity and functioning. Often used to refer to phalloplasty, metoidoplasty, or vaginectomy, sex reassignment surgery can also more ...
Pan American Games. 2019 Lima. 1500 m. Nikki Hiltz ( / ˈhɪlts / HILTS; born October 23, 1994) [ 1 ] is an American middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500 meters and mile. Hiltz holds the American record in the mile and is the 2023 US 1500 m champion. They won a silver medal at the 2024 World Indoor Championships .
Valentina Petrillo (born 2 October 1973) is an Italian Paralympic athlete competing in the 100, 200 and 400 m T12 class visually impaired sprint. [1] [2] [3]Petrillo is the first trans woman to take part in an international Paralympic Women's Championship, debuting at the Italian Paralympic Athletics Championships.
Iszac Henig is an American swimmer specializing in short distance freestyle races, and an undergraduate at Yale University.He gained particular notice as part of the debate about transgender people in sports when he came out as a trans man, while continuing to swim on the Yale women's team and achieving All-America status at the NCAA Division I Championship.