Fallon Fox | Transgender Woman

Fallon Fox is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and she was born on November 29, 1975, as a male. And at a very young age of five, she recalls being troubled about her gender. Fox would carry this burden as a teenager and would presume to be gay. And although she learned about transgender people when she was 17, she still lived on as a heterosexual man and even married her then-girlfriend during the tail end of her teenage years. At that time, they were expecting a daughter and Fallon decided to join the US Navy for her to have ample investment money for her daughter’s future.

After her stint with the Navy, she decided to continue with her formal education and attended college at Toledo. However, her unresolved gender issues loomed hard over her, and she decided to drop out. She confronted this issue head-on and worked as a truck driver until she had enough money to undergo gender reassignment surgery. In 2006, Fallon traveled to Bangkok to go through with the surgery. Nowadays, Fallon is famous for being the first openly transgender mixed martial artist.