Trans people we admire

[George White]

As an alternative to our Glinner (featuring John Boyne) lead, I thought we'd have a thread to celebrate trans people we like.

I'll start with Hari Nef. Almost steals Barbie, and also has a fun Letterboxd account.

[madhair60]

goblin

[shoulders]

Trans Sir Captain Tom Moore

[Butchers Blind]

It gets a rough ride by a lot of people but it's got some interesting and somewhat prescient stuff on there and is by no means Neil's worst album.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

The fat controller

[NoSleep]

goblin

Seconded.

Fran Blanche; founder of Frantone, erstwhile guitar FX pedal company; runs an excellent geeky YouTube channel called FranLab (actually Fran Blanche, but is @franlab) these days, where the subject could be anything from day to day.

https://www.youtube.com/@FranLab/videos

Zheanna Erose/Amelia Huff; composer, performer, experimenting successfully in the field of microtonal music (amongst other things). This piece blew my mind:

Not just great microtonal music; simply great music (albeit from another planet).

[oggyraiding]

I like Laura Les from 100 Gecs. Seems a good laugh.

[JaDanketies]

Paris Lees also comes to mind

[jobotic]

Obviously SOPHIE.

Also Cate Brooks of Advisory Circle.

[Shaxberd]

I'll probably keep coming back to this if it takes off, but here's a couple of starters.

A trans person from the past who I admire is Wendy Carlos, synthesiser pioneer:

And a trans person from the present I admire is Jay Hulme (Instagram | Twitter) who writes beautiful poetry and fascinating threads about his love of church architecture. I was pleasantly surprised the other day that my mum mentioned she'd been reading his posts, so glad she's found the nice bits of Twitter instead of getting radicalised.

[Blumf]

Vektroid of Vaporwave fame.

Probably load of other, but I wouldn't know, just people doing stuff and I don't pay attention to their life stories.

[surreal]

Alice Efe - youtube music producer with a great informative channel, they transitioned during the life of this channel so there are a lot of both pre- and post-transition videos.  First ones I saw were post so I was surprised when I found the earlier ones.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Vivian Tylinska, Roz Kaveny, SOPHIE, Wendy Carlos

[Icehaven]

Also Cate Brooks of Advisory Circle.

Seconded.

[Barry Admin]

Zheanna Erose/Amelia Huff; composer, performer, experimenting successfully in the field of microtonal music (amongst other things). This piece blew my mind:

Not just great microtonal music; simply great music (albeit from another planet).

Damn, that's amazing.

[Pink Gregory]

Ezra Furman is fantastic

[pepperweasel]

Stephanie Hirst

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Bailey Jay

[greencalx]

Sophie Wilson, designer of the Arm chip that powers pretty much every smartphone and tablet.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sophie Wilson, designer of the Arm chip that powers pretty much every smartphone and tablet.

I was going to say her.

Guess I'll add TAAHLIAH and Jordana (who might be better known under the production name 1.8.7.)

[Brundle-Fly]

Laverne Cox is pretty darn cool.

[gmoney]

Laura Jane Grace formerly of Against Me. Love her music, loved Against Me.
Dorian Electra. Makes some fantastic hyper pop.
Colette Arrand. Excellent pop culture writer.

[Ron Superior]

Patti Harrison:

Jackie Shane:

Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix:

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Seconding... well, all of these suggestions really. But Patti Harrison is obviously one of the funniest people in the world. And I thought Laura Jane Grace's book was very good.

[Des Wigwam]

Sophie Wilson, designer of the Arm chip that powers pretty much every smartphone and tablet.

Yes -thank you for saving me having to google her.

Also I like the historian off Abandoned Engineering. I am just generally very bad with names.

[Mister Six]

Glad to see the SOPHIE love.

Do genderfluid and NB people count? If so I'll highlight Doran Electra (GF) -

- and my favourite comic book author, Grant Morrison (NB).

Also massive shout out to trans author Rachel Pollack, whose Doom Patrol run even beat Morrison's, and, though it might be a bit basic to point out, trans pop star Kim Petras, who's done some absolute bangers.

[Dr Rock]

Patti Harrison!

Also Counterpoints,Jessie Gender and Bugs bunny.
edit - and Philosophy Tube

[Sebastian Cobb]

Alice Caldwell-Kelly / AliceAvizandum off of WTYPPOD and Trashfuture.

[George White]

I really fancied Kim Petras as a 16 year old googling trans stuff.
It's good to see she's gone far.

[George White]

Patti Harrison!

Also Counterpoints,Jessie Gender and Bugs bunny.
edit - and Philosophy Tube

Def. Philosophytube.
Also she's just starred in a film made by someone I definitely admire, comedian, OF girl and filmmaker and generic sexy 80s woman Mia Moore Marchant.

I once met Roz (having met her at the doomed 2019 Worldcon where I got thrown out because my autistic interactions made people 'uncomfortable') in London, and she wanted to have a coffee. But I would have been late for something.