The 18th Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for two decades from 1479 to 1458 BC, which makes her the first known major female head of state - the first one we know about anyway. While women could be leaders in ancient Egypt, a pharaoh was by definition male. So Hatshepsut had to invent a hybrid gender, presenting a challenge to the sculptors charged with translating her flesh into stone

203
BC

Until the first century AD, Roman citizens were prohibited from becoming Galli. Under Claudius, however, this ban was lifted a little later

203
BC

The first  Galli arrives in Rome  Later the Senate officially adopt Cybele as a  state goddess

612
BC

Sappho (from the isle of Lesbos) carries on with her continuing influence on the notion and expression of lesbian desire.

1377

Bethlem was used for lunatics

1421

"The Chinese eunuch admiral Zheng Discovered America, Australia and navigates the rest of the World with a map which was later obtained by the Portuguese from the Chinese.

1533

English parliament passed the first civil injunction against sodomy, which was basically defined as any form of non-procreative sexual activity (buggery, bestiality, etc). The sexes of the partners were not defined. Sodomy remained a capital offence in England until 1861 the last execution for sodomy took place in 1836.

1577

King Henry III of France frequently cross dressed and while dressed as a woman was referred to as ‘her majesty’ by his courtiers. Even his male clothes were considered outrageous despite the flamboyant standards of 6th-century France.

1654

Queen Christina of Sweden (often considered to be bisexual) abdicated the thrown, dressed in men's clothing and renamed her self Count Dohna.

1666

Robert Hooke was appointed city surveyor and designed the new (The Bethlehem Mental Hospital) in Moorfields.

1670

In England the earliest records of private madhouses on a regular basis are recorded from this date

1673

French explorers Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette come into contact with the “Berdache.” Illini Indians, and are astonished to discover a subset of Illini men who dressed and acted out the social role of women. The Illini termed these men “Ikoneta” while the French referred to them as the “Berdache.”

1676

MtF transsexual Abbe Francois Timoleon de Choisy attended a Papal inaugural Ball in female dress. His memoirs published postmortem, offer the first written testimony of cross-dressing.

1700

‘Molly’ houses provided a space for the English gay community to meet, carouse and relate to one another. ‘Mollies’ were men who often cross dressed and developed their own ‘queer’ culture.

1728

Chevalier D'Eon, born Charles d'Eon, was a famous French spy and ambassador who was born male but lived a significant part of his/her life as a woman.  Chevalier's birth sex was a hotly debated question

1750

Female to male transvestites join Nelson's Navy as did hundreds of others and were only discovered when they were flogged. They were never usually punished on discovery.  Many often went on stage and became celebrities wowing audiences backed by an singing and dancing groups of crossed dressed transvestite tarts. Mary Lacy known as William Chandler who served on the ‘Sandwich’ as a carpenter is one of the most famous 'she' also wrote a biography others include William Brown who served on the ‘Queen Charlotte’ until being outed by a newspaper.        

 1774

The Madhouses Act was established, setting up a commission of the Royal College of Physicians to license and visit private madhouses in the London area.  Although the commission could not release a patient improperly confined. This was the traditional role of the High Courts in Westminster, for whose benefit the registers were principally kept. The Westminster courts could also order special visits and reports, and examine those engaged in the execution of the Act.

1777

Beaumont (Eon of) Éon de Beaumont, Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée The most famous transvestite of the eighteenth century, a French diplomat Chevalier Éon de Beaumont lived the first half of his life as a man and the second as a woman. Charles de Beaumont, Knight of Eon. 1728-1810. As a secret French agent, went to Russia on a secret mission for Louis XV, he posed as companion to the Empress Elisabeth. He fought in the Seven Years war, and was later secretary to the French ambassador to London. On his return to France (1777) Eon was ordered to dress permanently a woman, which he did until his death

1804

George Sands, born Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, became an accomplished French romantic writer as famous for her affairs as for her words. She was the first woman in modern European history to frequently wear men's clothes, shocking her contemporaries.

1815

Alice Snell AKA James Gray served as a navy marine

1832

Madhouses Act- established

1839
- 1844

‘Rebecca and her daughters’ a group of male-to-female cross-dressers, battled throughout the Welsh countryside destroying road toll barriers, which were making the poor even poorer. These warriors also adopted the names and identities of women”

1840

Asylum Care policy  of the hungry-forties of the 19th century, believed that by moving mentally unstable people, including transsexual from a community disturbed by poverty, depravity and social unrest.  To the closed, humane, but disciplined environment of a lunatic asylum, early in the development of their ‘insanity’ they could be cured and the accumulation of chronic lunatics on poor relief halted. 

1841

In February ‘The London Statistical Society’ announced that it intended to collect lunatic asylum statistics during the year.

1842

The 1842 Licensed Lunatic Asylums Bill proposed a Barristers Commission as it was thought that county licensing and visiting was defective; it was proposed that the two legal commissioners should visit and report on county lunatic houses supplementary to the county visitors. The House of Commons rejected this proposal and an amended bill became the Inquiry Act

1845

The 1845 County Asylums Act compelled every county and borough in England and Wales to provide asylum treatment for all its pauper lunatics and Lord Ashley told Parliament that this would "effect a cure in seventy cases out of every hundred" (Hansard 6.6.1845 column 193).

1845

1845 The 1845 Lunacy Act established the Lunacy Commission: the Act named eleven Metropolitan Commissioners as Lunacy Commissioners. Six (three medical and three legal) were to be employed full time at salaries of 1,500 pounds a year. The Lunacy Commission had national authority, under the Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary, over all asylums (except Bedlam until 1853). It shared responsibility with the poor Law Commission/Board etc for pauper lunatics outside asylums. Its principle functions were to monitor the erection of a network of publicly owned county asylums, required under the 1845 County Asylums Act, and the transfer of all pauper lunatics from workhouses and outdoor relief to a public or private asylum; to regulate their treatment in private asylums, and (with the Poor Law Commission) monitor the treatment of any remaining in workhouses or on outdoor relief. The Lunacy Commission was also to monitor the regulation of county asylums and county licensed houses by JPs, and to regulate the conduct of hospitals for the insane. With the JPs it monitored the admission and discharge of patients from all types of asylum. It collected collated and analyzed data on the treatment of lunacy and advised on the development of lunacy law and policy. It also continued to license London's madhouses.

1860

Sodomy was removed from the list of capital crimes, laws governing sexuality were being rethought in England.

1864

In response to a panic over sexuality and its regulation, parliament passed the "CD Acts"—the Contagious Diseases Acts. It was further amended in 1866 and 1869 - The acts were meant to shield the population from the vice of ‘prostitution’. In truth, the bill gave communities the right to regulate and police working-class women.

1896

During the Victorian period cross-dressing is featured in various publications and transvestites become affectionately known as 'tight-lacers'.

1897

Henry Havelock Ellis of the Fabian Society, becomes a supporter of sexual liberation. His interests in human biology and his own personal experiences led Havelock Ellis to write his six volume ‘Studies in the Psychology of Sex’. The books, published between 1897 and 1910 caused tremendous controversy and were banned for several years. Other books written by Havelock Ellis included ‘The New Spirit’ (1890), ‘Man and Woman’ (1894) ‘Sexual Inversion’ (1897) and The ‘Erotic Rights of Women’ (1918). Henry Havelock Ellis died in 1939. His autobiography, ‘My Life’ was published posthumously in 1940. .

1897

"Magnus  Hirschfeld starts the mostly homosexual Scientific Humanitarian Committee in Germany.

1899

In Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch Fur Studerende und Aertze, 6th edition, Emil Kraeplin, a Munich professor of psychiatry classifies major psychoses into two groups: dementia praecox (paranoia) and manic-depressive psychosis.

1899

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams revolutionizes psychiatric theory and practice. He is the first to use the unconscious to treat psychiatric illness in patients by using 'psychoanalysis' - free association and interpretation of dreams.

Cross-dressing Carnival held in Crewe (Nr. Liverpool) in the North of England

1900

Sigmund Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality describe the stages of sexual development and explains the effects of infantile sexuality on sexual dysfunction.

1908

1908 Clifford Beers publishes ‘A Mind That Found Itself’, detailing his experiences as a patient in psychiatric hospitals. This work prompts the founding of the mental hygiene movement in the United States.

1910

The term ‘transvestite’ coined by Magnus Hirschfeld 

1913

In the UK the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act established The Board of Control. This was the old Lunacy Commission with extended functions with respect to mental deficiency. The Board of Control continued to regulate the mental health system until 1959, but later with reduced responsibilities after the National Health Service Act defined   Four "classes" of Mental Deficiency.
1. Idiot ~ unable to protect themselves from common dangers
2.  Imbecile ~ could protect themselves from common dangers, but unable to take care of themselves
3. Feeble minded ~ required care to protect themselves
4. Moral Defectives ~ criminal or vicious personalities. Unmarried Mothers, homosexuals and transgender people at the time became absorbed into this category. 
The Board of Control was established which took on the powers and responsibilities of the Lunacy Commissioners.

1917

1917 The Austrian psychiatrist Julius von Wagner-Jauregg becomes the first psychiatrist to win the Nobel prize

1919

The physician Magnus Hirschfeld was able to realize his greatest ambition and to found the world's first Institute for Sexology. It was housed in one of Berlin's buildings.

1920

The Menninger Clinic (for mental health patients) is founded in Topeka, Kansas. (Named after William Menninger who pioneered effective treatments for psychiatric casualties in World War II, and Karl Menninger who applied psychoanalytic concepts to American psychiatry

1920

Alfred Adler establishes the school of individual psychology and becomes the first psychoanalyst to challenge Freud. He coins the terms 'lifestyle' and 'inferiority complex' in his book, ‘Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensations’.

1920

1920s In the period between the two world wars, Freudian theory shed a faint glow of hope on the outskirts of the custodial asylum. From shortly after the first world war moves were made: away from in-patient treatment towards outpatient treatment towards treatment without certification towards treatment near to patients homes But these moves only touched the edge of the mental health system.”

1927

The Mental Deficiency Act 1927 Local Authorities were given responsibility for providing occupation and training for those with Mental Deficiency. Mental Deficiency was defined as "a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind existing before the age of 18 years whether arising from 'inherent causes' or induced by disease or injury.

1930

Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge by Norman Haire 1930 address "Transvestism" in detail. It also illustrates the First 'Sex-change’ procedures.

1932

Magnus Hirschfeld  lectures ‘sexology’ in the United States

1932

 Man Into Woman, the story of Lili Elbe’s life, MTF transition, and Sex Reassignment Surgery is published.  Elbe’s story of conquering societal pressures and having a long term relationship with artist Gerber Weneger proved how the sexual practices of transgendered people had little to do with how they perceived themselves.

1933

Ernst Rüdin had already begun to incorporate eugenic rhetoric into the racial policies of Nazi Germany. The "Nazis abuse, murder and sterilization of transgender people.  The Institute for Sexology is raided, shut down, and its records destroyed by the Nazis during 1933. Physicians and researchers involved in the clinic flee Germany. Some who are unable to escape and commit suicide over the coming years

1937

Karen Horney, a German-born psychiatrist challenges Freud's theory of the castration complex in women and his theory that Oedipal complex and female sexuality influences neurosis. In The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, she argues that neurosis largely is determined by the society in which one lives.

1938

Electroshock is first used by Ugo Cerletti to produce convulsions that he thought would alleviate schizophrenic and manic-depressive psychosis; it was later found to be more effective in the later illness and is still in use today. It was most commonly used on transgender people

1939

1939 World War II begins and Hitler decrees that patients with incurable medical illnesses be killed because they are 'biologically unfit.' Approximately 270,000 patients with mental illness including the transgendered are killed by physicians and medical personnel complying with the Nazi doctrine of racial purity! Influenced by ‘Eugenics’ which are largely the thoughts and work of Ernst Rudin.

1941

Premarin®, conjugated estrogens collected from pregnant mares is first marketed in Canada. Two years later it is marketed in the United States.

1945

In 1945, Sir Harold Gillies and his colleague Ralph Millard carry out the world's first sex change of a woman into a man on the young aristocrat, Michael Dillon.
Sir Harold Gillies, internationally renowned as the father of modern plastic surgery, played a pioneering wartime role in Britain developing pedicle flap surgery. Gillies later performed surgery on the United Kingdom's first male-to-female transsexual -
Roberta Cowell

1946

Congress passes the National Mental Health Act which, for the first time in US history, provides generous funding for psychiatric education and research. This act leads to the creation in 1949 of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

1946

Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, publishes The psychoanalytic Treatment of Children, which introduces basic concepts in the theory and practice of child psychoanalysis

1946

Therapeutic asylums planned in the 1840s are a legacy of failure and have created a network of large asylums full of long-stay patients with little or no hope of rehabilitation. In post war Britain the National Health Service inherited theses asylums which stood in open countryside outside towns, or had been encroached upon by expanding suburbs. Transgender people were still considered insane and housed in them. The National Health Service Act stripped the ‘Board of Control’ of nearly all its functions except those of providing an inspectorate of mental hospitals (particularly with respect of compulsory detention).

1947

The foundation of the ‘National Association for Mental Health’

1948

National Health Service Act came into operation.  The National Health Service took over from county councils and boroughs with major responsibility for mental health.

The reforms of the 1920s and 1930s had only breeched the edge of the mental health system. The inheritance of the NHS being a system of over 100 asylums, or "mental hospitals", with an average population of over 1,000 patients in each

1949

Harry Benjamin treats transsexuals in the US with hormones. (Premarin)

1950

In Childhood and Society, Erik Erikson restates Freud's concepts of infantile sexuality and develops the concepts of 'adult identity,' and 'identity crisis.'

1951

May 15th, Robert Cowell became Roberta Cowel. The United Kingdom's first full surgically altered transsexual.

1952

Christine Jorgensen becomes an American transsexual media sensation.

1952

The French psychiatrists Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker report that chlorpromazine (Thorazine ®) calms hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients without causing clinically significant depression. The drug is called 'hibernotherapie' because patients became quiet, likened to animals in hibernation.

1953

Mental Millions ‘B F Skinner publishes ‘Science and Human Behavior’, describing his theory of operant conditioning, an important concept in the development of behavioral therapy

1954

1954 The Royal Commission on the Mental Health Laws (1954 to 1957), under Lord Percy, appointed as a consequence the number of resident in institutions to fall.

1957

1957  The first effective pharmacologic treatment for depression is reported with the work of Kuhn on the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine and of Loomer, Saunders and Kline on the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor iproniazid

1957

1957: Royal Commission on the Mental Health Laws reported. The key themes of the Percy Report were: That 'mental disorder' should be regarded "in much the same way as physical illness and disability" (paragraph 5) That hospitals for mental illness should be run as near as possible to those for physical disorders.

1959

By 1959 only 12% of admissions to mental illness hospitals were compulsory and the trend was towards shorter periods of in-patient treatment and assessment with an emphasis on outpatient treatment.
(Whilst in 1930 there had been practically no outpatients, by 1959 there were 144,000 attendances at outpatient clinics. ( Maclay, W.S. 1961, p.98)

1959

The 1959 Mental Health Act abolished the ‘Board of Control’

1960

A conflict of cultural beliefs - In England during the 1960s despite hostility to ‘cross dressing’ within mental health services, Every week in the  booming holiday camp industry  ‘topsy turvy’ nights encouraged men and women to dress in each others clothes at least once during their holiday.

1962

Beaumont Society Founded http://www.beaumontsociety.org.uk/ 

1966

Harry Benjamin publishes ‘The Transsexual Phenomenon’.

1967

A change in British law allowed ‘Charing Cross Hospital’ to begin performing SRS.

1968

The International Olympic Committee tests chromosomes of athletes, and             puts a stop to ‘transsexuals’ competing.

1968

After increased interest Universities begin opening clinics for treating transsexuals. The first sex reassignment surgeries performed on non-intersexed transsexuals.

1969

Transgender and gender-nonconforming people are among those who resisted arrest in a  routine bar raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village, thus helping to ignite the modern LGBT rights movement

1969

The Erickson Educational Foundation began sponsoring a series of ‘International Symposia on Gender Identity’

1970

Angela Douglas a well known trans sexual attends the Peace and Freedom Party as an openly transsexual delegate and  successfully introduces a pro-transsexual rights platform

1970

Corbett v. Corbett 1970 (otherwise April Ashley). The judgment by Justice Ormrod sets a precedent that will leave UK post-op transsexual people unable to marry until the 21st Century – During September 1963 the parties went through a ceremony of marriage.  April Corbett's (nee: Ashley) marriage is annulled and she is declared to be legally still a man despite sex reassignment surgery.

1970

William Masters and Virginia Johnson's work revolutionizes knowledge and attitudes about sex. They revise Freud's theories of orgasm, report on sexual relationships in geriatrics, and find counseling helps most people with sexual dysfunction. ‘Sex therapy’ as a psychiatric specialty follows.

1972

The AMA first officially sanctions SRS as the treatment for transsexualism. "Gender Dysphoria Syndrome" was coined a year later by Norman Fisk.

1973

New York Trans-Activist Silvia Rivera is followed at a Gay Pride Rally by Jean O’Leary who denounces transgendered people as female impersonators profiting from derision and oppression of women

1973

Beth Elliott, aka “Mustang Sally,” becomes vice-president of the ‘Daughters of Bilitis’. Soon after, she is ‘denounced and outed’ as transsexual and hounded out of the organization by transphobic lesbian separatists.

1973

Political pressure from the National Gay Task Force, the American Psychiatric Association changes the diagnosis of homosexuality from a disease to a ‘condition’.

1974

During February the Labor Government’s Jan Morris, one of Britain's top journalists who covered wars and rebellions around the globe and even climbed Mount Everest, published ‘Conundrum’, a personal account of her transition. The book is now considered a classic.

1976

1976 Tennis Ace Reneé Richards is ‘outed’ and barred from competition when she attempts to enter a women’s’ tennis tournament. Her subsequent legal battle establishes that transsexuals are legally, accepted in their new identity after sex reassignment in the US.

1977

Brain material provided by the Netherlands Brain Bank demonstrates transsexualism is a pre birth medical condition and not a 'state-of-mind'.
They present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly supports the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of ‘gender identity disorder’.

1979

Thatcher Government - A series of programs entitled 'A Change of Sex' are aired on the BBC - viewers could for the first time follow pre-op transsexual Julia Grant through her transition. It also highlighted the arrogance at that time of psychiatrists based at the Gender Identity Clinic, Charing Cross Hospital London.

1979

Harry Benjamin’s International Gender Dysphoria Association for the  promotion of transsexual standards of care founded

 1980

The original transgender standards of care guidelines were publishes by the Harry Benjamin’s International Gender Dysphoria Association. The first five versions were published in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1998 and 2001.

 1980

The American Psychiatric Association listed transsexualism as an official disorder in the DSM-III. The diagnosis was changed to "gender identity disorder" in the DSM-IV.

1987

Dr. Harry Benjamin dies (1885-1987

1989

Christine Jorgensen dies (1927 – 1989)

1989

Celebrated jazz musician Billy Tipton died in Spokane, Washington, revealing that he was a woman. Tipton, who played in big bands in the 40s and 50s, lived for 56 years as a man, marrying several times and raising children.

1991

1991 Transvestite comedian Eddie Izzard receives a nomination for the Prestigious ‘Perrier’ Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival

1992

Jean Burkholter is ejected from the Michigan Women’s Music Festival by transphobic festival organizers.

1993

Cheryl Chase founded the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) to build awareness and offer support to intersex people

1993

“March On Washington” organizers include bisexuals but refused to include  ‘Transgender’  in the name of the march, angering TG activists that had worked for months to gain inclusion

1993

1993 Transgendered youth Brandon Teena was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. This hate crime brought widespread attention to transgender discrimination and violence and became the subject of the award-winning film ‘Boys Don't Cry ’.

1993

“Camp Trans” for three consecutive years is pitched outside of the entrance gate to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival to protest the Festival’s newly publicized “Womyn-Born-Womyn Only” anti-transsexual policy

1993

Trans-Activists working for many years with Gay and Lesbian activists, successfully pass an anti-discrimination law in the State of Minnesota protecting transsexual and transgendered people along with Gays and Lesbians

1994

Trans-Gender activists protest exclusion from Stonewall 25 celebrations and the Gay Games in New York City. The Gay Games rescinds rules that require “documented completion of sex change” before allowing transgendered individuals to compete.

1994

Several cities on the west coast of the U.S. pass anti-discrimination statute’s protecting transsexual and transgendered people.

1995

Transsexual activists protest the stealing of TS/TG History by the Gay & Lesbian community. Efforts by the Ad Hoc Committee to grant recognition of Alan Hart successfully pressure Oregon’s Right to Privacy (RTP, now known as “Right to Pride”) political action committee to cease using Alan Hart's old name as an award given out to Gay & Lesbian rights activists

1996

Jo Anna McNamara of It’s Time Oregon successfully convinces Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industry (BOLI) that transsexuals are protected under existing Oregon labor law dealing with discrimination of people with disabilities and medical conditions. This made Oregon the third state to extend employment protection to transgendered people, following Minnesota and Nebraska.

1997

1997 Trans activist Leslie Feinberg published Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, a who's who of transgender people throughout world history that traces the roots of transgender oppression.

1998

1998 Julie Hesmondhalgh joins the Coronation Street (Britain's longest running television soap) as transsexual character Hayley Patterson. Of Transgender Zone was the first to run her interview’s in the TG press!

1998

Dana International becomes the first transsexual woman to win the Eurovision Song Contest singing a song called 'Diva'.

1998

Transgender activists protest exclusion from the ‘Gay Games’ in Amsterdam. The Gay Games reinstates rules that require “documented completion of sex change or two years of hormones” before allowing transgendered individuals to compete. Loren Cameron, FTM trans-man, expected to compete, drops out of competition in protest. However, European singer and transsexual, Dana International performs at the Games’ festivities.

1998

Japan allows first legal Sex Reassignment Surgery to be performed on a FtM

1999

Brain material provided by the Netherlands Brain Bank demonstrates transsexualism is a medical condition and not a 'state-of-mind'. The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals’ sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder.

1999

The UK Sex Discrimination Act is amended to include protections on the basis of Gender Reassignment. Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations

1999

In a Texas court, In Littleton vs. Prang, Christine Littleton, and a post-op MTF transsexual loses her case against a doctor who she contended negligently allowed her husband to die.  The doctors’ defense lawyers argued that she was never married to her late husband since her Texas birth certificate, though now amended to read female originally read male, therefore she could not be the widow as the law does not allow “same sex marriage.” Her appeal to a higher court failed when falling on bigoted ears Christine Littleton was declared to be still male in spite of having taken all of the proper medical and legal steps. Thus, transsexual citizens of the United States joined those of the United Kingdom in finding that their legal status is in legal limbo.

1999

Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 1102 In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 11 July 2002 in the case of Christine Goodwin  v. the United Kingdom application no. 28957/95), the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that there had been a violation of  Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights; there had been a violation of  Article 12 (right to marry and to found a family); no separate issue had arisen under Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination); there had been no violation of  Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).  The Court held, unanimously, that the finding of violation constituted in itself sufficient just satisfaction for the non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicant and awarded the applicant 39,000 euros for costs and expenses This led the way for the later   Gender Recognition Act to become UK law
 The Full Legal Judgment is available here:  http://www.transgenderzone.com/library/uz.htm

1999

The Draft [Gender Recognition] Bill is the Government's response to decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the House of Lords holding that aspects of English legislation violate rights under ECHR Article 8 (respect for private life) and Article 12 (right to marry) so far as it refuses to give legal recognition to a transsexual person's reassigned gender.

1999

Jonathan Ned Katz publishes the connection between Gilbert’s “H” and Alan Hart. He also incorrectly characterizes Dr. Hart as a “lesbian,” effectively stealing transgender history.

2003

British transvestite Grayson Perry awarded Turner prize. "Grayson Perry, 43 scooped the controversial Turner prize, and collected £20,000 at a ceremony at ‘Tate Britain’ in London, dressed as alter ego Claire.

2003

Lausanne Switzerland - Transsexuals will be able to compete at the Athens Olympics if they have had appropriate surgery and are legally recognized as members of their new sex the International Olympic Committee decides.

2003

The United Kingdom Gender Recognition Act becomes law on the 10th February. Offering transgender people full legal recognition of change of gender.  http://www.transgenderzone.com/library/uz.htm"

2003

On Friday the 6th August Portuguese post-operative transsexual Nadia Armada 27 of Surrey won the United Kingdom reality Game show " Big Brother 5 and took away prize money of £63,500 pounds and the hearts of the nation.

2005

Mercury Music Prize New York-based but English born front man Antony Hegarty was declared winner at the ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London with their album 'I am a Bird now' To what degree does Antony himself feel female, or at least latently, potentially so? Do I feel female? Y'know, I feel like a mixture. I feel pretty mixed. I probably would identify as transgender (Quote from NME)

2006

Gwen Amber Rose (Aged 17 Years Old) was beaten and strangled in the USA October 2002 resulting in world wide outrage After a retrial the Jury Found (2) Defendants Guilty Of Second Degree  Murder Michael Magidson and Jose Merel - Jason Cazares Pleaded Guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter Sentences Delivered on January 27, 2006:Michael Magidson - Age 25 [Murder 2] Mandadory 15 years to life Jose Merel - Age 26 [Murder 2] Mandadory 15 years to life - Jason Cazares - Age 26 [Voluntary Manslaughter] 6 years Jaron Nabors - Age 24 [Voluntary Manslaughter] is serving an 11 year sentence

2006

Felicity Huffman is nominated for an Oscar for her role as ‘Bree’ in the worldwide hit road movie Transamerica  - History | The Transgender