Influential Transwomen

[brooksglass]

Who would you all day are the most influential Transwomen to yourselves?

Whether it is the first ones you ever heard /read about when you was younger or whether it is fairly recent one, all stories be interesting to hear.

[LilyRox]

Vaniity, Sarina Valentina, Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, Buck Angel (even though he isn't a transwoman)

[brooksglass]

Good choices Lily. My first influence was Dana International. She was the first Transwoman I had heard of a youngster in the 90s and it really stirred my imagination.

[LilyRox]

I don't know a lot of trans people other than people in porn, but that's because of connecting. I very rarely actually watch trans porn.

I was introduced to trans by seeing content from Vaniity probably around 2005. I don't know much about her nor do I really look for her stuff, but I wouldn't be in the same place I am right now without discovering her.

Sarina Valentina taught me a lot tips being trans and is really open about her life/views. When she was younger with black hair I think we shared a lot of similar qualities.

Buck Angel is also a huge part of the trans community and a really smart person. He does a lot to educate people about trans/porn industry and is a big human rights activist.

[ACarrera]

This is a very good question that has me thinking. Firstly I have to say that any transwoman who walks proudly with their head held high will be influential. To just a few people or to many. As in the states and elsewhere it's becoming more acceptable but isn't exactly easy. I love it when transgenders are confident, but sweet at the same time. The first time I ever saw a transgender woman, it was around 2010/ 2011 in the Hangover II, Yasmine Lee. I was just as shocked as the guys in the movie, but I was shocked and amazed. So her role in that movie influenced my knowledge and attraction to transwoman. I consider myself fairly new to transgenders still, I'll say about late 2017 I met, spoke to, and took an interest in a transgender woman for the first time. She was with her friends and they were more attractive than any of the women in this upscale club. The MOST influential is tough, but I personally believe it's something that deserves categories. I would say Amiyah Scott who stars in the TV show Star and Laverne Cox from Orange is the New Black TV show wise. You can add Carmen Carrera from Drag Race, no relation both mixed with Puerto Rican :p, and Caitlyn Jenner as far as reality TV goes. I think I read somewhere that the LBGT community criticizes Jenner alot because of political stance and that may have changed recently. In the adult film industry there seems to be so many. I know Venus Lux is a producer and director now. Just heard of Buck Angel recently and please don't judge me, but I wasn't too familiar of transmen until now. TS Madison started in the adult films, but she is an internet personality now. She is very outspoken haha. There is a Youtube channel called T Time Network where they discuss different issues in the trans community. I want to see one leading transwoman as host of a day or nighttime talk show. It doesn't have to be on a major network at first, maybe Youtube than gain popularity. Inviting activist, film stars, models, students etc. I feel like that person will be most influential.

Adult Film Industry Directors/ Producers
- Venus Lux
- Buck Angel
- These are the only two I've heard of, I would like to know more and see their work.

Adult Film Stars
- Yasmine Lee
- Joanna Jett
- Wendy Williams

Politics
- Eli Erlick -youngest person to get sex reassignment surgery. Director of Transgender Student Resources.
Janet Mock

Movies
- Yasmine Lee
- Harmony Santana
The only full transgender movie I've seen. It was very realistic and she transitioned while making the film. Will watch more in the future.


Models
- Lea T
- Isis King
- Carmen Carrera
- Amanda Lepore
- Gigi Gorgeous

TV
- Laverne Cox
- Amiyah Scott
- Caitlyn Jenner

[filghy2]

Renee Richards was the first transsexual I ever read or heard about in the media. She played top-level women's tennis as a post-op TS in the late 1970s, after having played on the men's circuit in the late 1950s. She was allowed to play in the women's comp after a court ruling that was a landmark case in transgender rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards

[Nick Danger]

Taking "influential" to mean "influencing me to stroke it," here's a list of the Most Influential T-Girls in my life, in chronological order:

1. Olivia Love
2. Lisa Lawrence
3. Johanna Bardin
4. Sasha Hevyn
5. Vaniity
6. Kalena Rios
7. Bruna Castro
8. Sienna Grace
9. Jessy Dubai
10. Lena Kelly
11. Some Thai prostitute named Jasmine who isn't even all that pretty but gives me an inexplicably robust woody every goddamn time
12. Daisy Taylor

All these t-girls have greatly influenced the rapid rise and ultimate fall of the civilization in my pants.

[AsianBabe_]

For me personally

Amanda Lepore

Yasmin Lee

Candis Cayne

Carmen Carrera

Miriam

Vaniity

Venus Lux

[MrFanti]

The heavy responses towards individuals in adult entertainment is interesting vs the few responses for professional trans women....
That being said, I'll say Carla Lewis for one....

[LilyRox]

The heavy responses towards individuals in adult entertainment is interesting vs the few responses for professional trans women....
That being said, I'll say Carla Lewis for one....

Mine are purely based on transitioning. Those are the ones that had the biggest impact on me.

[Stavros]

Sylvia Rivera and the Stonewall sisters, the anvil on which a new phase of the sexual revolution was forged, and so cruelly dismissed by the gay men who looked down on them.
https://www.bese.com/the-crusade-of-transgender-activist-sylvia-rivera/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera

Caroline Cossey, Eva Robins and Romy Haag (one time girlfriend of David Bowie) -actors who proved it is possible to be transexual and act in mainstream films- Cossey in a James Bond film, the latter two in Mascara (1987) a film that as far as I know has never been translated into DVD.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093504/

(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093504/)Add Holly Woodlawn to the list, even if the films were poor.

[Wendy Summers]

This will be a name very few here will know, but Babs Siperstein is a personal hero. She was a transgender rights activist in NJ and responsible for much of the legislation that makes NJ such a great state for trans rights. She passed away recently and it's been a huge loss here in NJ.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/02/namesake-of-recently-enacted-nj-transgender-birth-certificate-law-dies-at-76.html

[brooksglass]

Legendary Scouser April Ashley.

The exhibition on her in Liverpool a few years back was interesting and inspiring.

[Gillian]

I'm not sure how many of the girls on here that perform would claim that they set out to be influential. Inspiring perhaps, giving confidence to other girls (as Lily mentioned).

I think someone like Hannah Graf (nee Winterbourne), the British army officer could be described as influential. She is able to make transgender issues more mainstream which is surely a good thing.

On top of that, she married an FtM transgendered man, which surely scores her extra points ... ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfN_nvCQxT4

[Dudedude12345]

Renee Richards(whom I'm putting in my game)
Trace Lysette Mainstream entertainment
Danica Roem
Ines Rau

[kieron]

One you have all not mentioned: Georgina Beyer, transgender Member of Parliament, mayoress of Wairerapa district? from New Zealand, I met her personally in 2002 when i was in Wellington, a beautiful human being

[BackRiver]

Amanda Simpson, VP of R&D at AirBus and worked in the Obama administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Simpson