Caroline Cossey | Transgender Woman
Caroline, also known as Tula, was born in Brooke, United Kingdom, on August 31, 1954. After her appearance in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only, a James Bond film, the British news outlet News of the World referred to her as a transgender person. In 1991, another win for the LGBTQ+ community as Cossey became their first representative to grace Playboy magazine. Since then, she never stops fighting to have the right to get married and be recognized as a woman legally.
While she’s working in London’s West End, her investment in gender transition started as an usherette. At 17, she began taking hormone therapy. Aside from working as a showgirl, she has also undergone breast augmentation and sex reassignment surgery. Later, she changed her legal name, and the final surgery to womanhood happened on December 31, 1974, in London. Cossey decided to publish her autobiography in 1982, entitled I Am a Woman.