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Year

Zone

Type

Name

Transgender Description

Aaron Vera Morales

2011

A Mexican fugitive, who was wanted for stealing 200,000 dollars from the government, is said to have undergone sex change surgery in order to avoid being arrested. Aaron Vera Morales carried identification that said he was a woman when he was caught.

Achilles

-1000

In order to keep Achilles safe from the war, Thetis hides the young man at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros. There, Achilles is disguised as a girl and lives among Lycomedes' daughters, perhaps under the name "Pyrrha". With Lycomedes' daughter Deidamia, whom in the account of Statius he rapes, Achilles there fathers a son, Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus, after his father's possible alias). According to this story, Odysseus learns from the prophet Calchas that the Achaeans would be unable to capture Troy without Achilles' aid. Odysseus goes to Skyros in the guise of a peddler selling women's clothes and jewelry and places a shield and spear among his goods. When Achilles instantly takes up the spear, Odysseus sees through his disguise and convinces him to join the Greek campaign. In another version of the story, Odysseus arranges for a trumpet alarm to be sounded while he was with Lycomedes' women; while the women flee in panic, Achilles prepares to defend the court, thus giving his identity away.

Adonis

-1000

Adonis was bridegroom to Aphrodite, but also served Apollo as a girl.

Agdistis

-1000

The Phrygian Agdistis, whose followers castrated themselves and dressed as women, was a bisexual being that castrated itself to become female.

Alexander Kerensky

1917

-1809

Alexander Kerensky (1881 to 1970) was minister-chairman of the Russian Provisional Government after the february revolution of 1917. His government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in the october revolution. Kerensky escaped the Bolsheviks disguised as a woman.

Antoine Marie Chamans, Comte De Lavalette

1815

Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette (1769 to 1830) was a French politician and general. He was arrested after the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration and, on 21 November 1815, Lavalette was sentenced to execution by the Ultras. One night before his scheduled execution, he was visited by his wife and daughter and managed to change clothes and places with his wife, a ruse that was not discovered until the next morning.

Antonio Perez

1590

-1612

Antonio Perez (1540 to 1611) was a Spanish statesman, secretary of king Philip II of Spain. In 1590 he escaped from prison in Madrid, disguised as a woman.

Aphrodite (Venus Castina)

-1000

This Goddess responded with sympathy and understanding to the yearnings of feminine souls locked up in male bodies. When the Scythians pillaged her temple at Ascelon, she's alleged to have been so enraged that she made women of the plunderers and decreed that their posterity should be similarly affected.

Aphroditos

-1000

The Cypriots worshiped a bearded Aphrodite called Aphroditos, with a woman's body and clothes, a beard and male genitals. When they sacrificed to Aphroditos they crossdressed.

Archibald Campbell

1681

-1612

Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (1629 to 1685). In 1680, the Earl opposed the oath attached to the Test Act, intended to ensure the loyalty of the holders of public office to King Charles II, because it also demanded conformity with the king's ideas on forms of church government and religious worship. The earl’s refusal to take the oath led to him being declared a traitor in 1681. He was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, but escaped, disguised as a woman, and fled from Leith to the Netherlands. His estates were confiscated.

Aruna

-1000

It is said that Aruna, the Charioteer of Surya was bored of his monotonous life and was eager to have a break. Someone told him that the nymphs in the Indra’s palace were the most beautiful ones and since then it was his intention to and visit the palace of Indra. One day he got an idea. He meditated one evening and changed into a beautiful lass and went to Indra’s Durbar and hidden in a corner he saw the Apsaras dancing and in his heightened happiness forgot that he is supposed to remain hidden and Indra saw him. Indra did not see Aruna, he saw a beautiful girl and he beckoned her. Aruna went silently to Indra and since he could not reveal who he was, he remained silent and let Indra have his way with “her”. By the time Aruna left Indra’s place, it was already too late and Surya was angry with Aruna for neglecting his reponsibilities and rebuked him. Aruna told Surya his story of what happened in Indra’s Palace. Surya was intrigued and in his curiosity wanted to see how Aruna would look like if he were a girl and ordered the charioteer to take the form of the same nymph as of the last night, so poor Aruna had to satisfy his master too. The consequence was birth of Vali and Sugreev.

Benvenuto Cellini

1571

During a party in Rome, Cellini (1500 to 1571) dresses up Diego as a woman and takes him as his date. Diego was a boy of sixteen, the son of a spanish metalsmith who lived nearby, whom Cellini occasionally used as an unpaid model. At the party, the other women quicky become envious of Diego because the men at the party proclaim Cellini's companion “Pomona” the most beautiful woman there. The women ask “Pomona” questions and are told that she is pregnant. When one of the incredulous women feels her stomach to gauge how far along she is, she unwittingly handles Diego's genitals instead. All the party guests, including the painter Giulio Romano, roar with laughter, proclaiming Cellini the life of the party.

Bhangasvana

-1000

A king had a hundred sons, then falls into a pool of water which turns him into a woman who also has a hundred sons. All of them die in a war, then one of the gods asks him which ones he loved more - the ones he fathered or the ones she mothered. His answer surprises and delights the god, who restores them all to life. The king decides to stay female.

Boulton And Park

1871

Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were two Victorian crossdressers and suspected homosexuals who appeared as defendants in a celebrated trial in London in 1871, charged "with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence". After the prosecution failed to establish that they had sex, which was then a crime, or that wearing women's clothing was in any sense a crime, both men were acquitted.

Caligula

Roman emperor Calligula (12 to 41) one day decided that he was a goddess, so he dressed the part and forced the people to adore him (her).

Cesar Ortiz Ortiz

2022

-2209

Cesar Ortiz dressed as a woman and escaped from a prison in Asunción, Paraguay on 29 May 2022. Ortiz was only out for a few hours before being recaptured. The 36-year-old, known as “Gordito Lindo” or “Cute Chubby”, has served three of an eight-year prison term for violent theft. Ortiz was the second leader of local drug gang known as the “Rotela Clan”.

Charles Edward Stuart

1745

Charles Edward Stuart (1720 to 1788) was the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland. After the Battle of Culloden, he was assisted by loyal supporters such as Flora MacDonald who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, "Betty Burke".

Charles Kane

1997

Born Sam Hashimi, the businessman and divorced father-of-two had a sex-change operation in 1997 to turn him into glamorous interior designer Samantha Kane. He spent £100,000 on cosmetic operations and tooth veneers to create the ‘ultimate male fantasy’ and was so convincing as a woman he had no trouble attracting men, and was briefly engaged to a wealthy landowner. Then, in 2004, after seven years of living as a woman, he decided he’d made a horrible mistake; the result -he believes now -of a breakdown following the acrimonious end of his 12-year marriage and estrangement from his children. Initially thrilled by his transformation, life as a woman quickly paled despite a jetset lifestyle in Monaco. He hated the way female hormones made him moody and emotional. Shopping bored him and sex was a disappointment. No matter how feminine he looked, he felt he was merely playing a role. So, in 2005, Charles spent a further £25,000 on three operations to turn him back into a male after being referred by the gender clinic at London’s Charing Cross Hospital. His breast implants were removed and male genitalia re-constructed from skin grafts. The trouble was, he wasn’t the man he had been before.

Chevalier d'Eon

1810

Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont (1728 to 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Eon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman.

Chevalier De Freminville

1848

-1912

Christophe-Paulin de La Poix, chevalier de Freminville (1787 to 1848) was a french navy commander, naturalist, and archeologist. He was also a pioneer of transvestism. After the tragic dead of his beloved Caroline in 1822, He finally returned to France in 1825 and spent the rest of his life half mad, dressing as a woman, with Caroline's dress, and meeting visitors dressed as a woman.

Christine Jorgensen

1952

Christine Jorgensen, born George William Jorgensen Jr. (1926 to 1989) was an American trans woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery. Jorgensen grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1945, she was drafted into the U.S. Army for World War II. After her service she attended several schools, worked, and around this time heard about transitioning surgery. She traveled to Europe and in Copenhagen, Denmark, obtained special permission to undergo a series of operations starting in 1951. She returned to the United States in the early 1950s and her transformation was the subject of a New York Daily News front page story. She became an instant celebrity, using the platform to advocate for transgender people and became known for her directness and polished wit. She also worked as an actress and nightclub entertainer and recorded several songs.

Claudius

Roman emperor Claudius (-10 to 54) forced married woman to came to palace to pass the night with him. One day the husband disguised as his wife came to palace and said to Claudius that he was there to save him, because other man, with worse ideas could came and kill him that was unarmed and without guards waiting for a woman to came.

Clauvino Da Silva

2019

-1909

Clauvino Da Silva, a Brazilian gang leader, tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him behind bars and walking out the prison’s main door in her place. But prison officials said the nervousness displayed by Clauvino da Silva, also known as “Shorty,” as he tried to leave the prison in the western part of Rio de Janeiro dressed as a woman gave him away. He was killed a few days later in prison.

Cybele

-204

Rome’s leaders introduce the cult of Cybele in order to boost morale during the Punic War. Cybele’s priests would hold processions throughout the city, ending at a plain where their rites would begin. During the peak of these rites, a priest castrated himself, whereupon he would don female garments.

David Cruickshank

1914

-1906

David Cruickshank (1895 to 1973) was a british soldier in WWI. He was injured in battle in 1914 and was left behind in France by his troop, hidden from the enemy by a housewife and dressed as a female to keep suspicious eyes from prying.

David Reimer

1966

-2306

David Reimer (1965 to 2004) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born biologically male, but after a botched circumcision destroyed his penis, his parents, under the guidance of a controversial psychologist named John Money, decided to raise him as a girl. They gave him the name "Brenda" and attempted to feminize him through hormone treatments and other medical interventions. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, David struggled with depression, anxiety, and a sense of disconnect from his gender identity. As an adult, he learned the truth about his past and underwent surgery to reconstruct his penis. He eventually adopted the name David and lived as a man for the remainder of his life. David Reimer became an advocate for transgender rights and spoke out against the medical practices that had been used on him. He passed away in 2004, reportedly due to suicide. His story has become an important case study in the fields of gender identity, psychology, and medical ethics.

David Tennenbaum

1942

David Tennenbaum was born on March 11, 1931, the son of Jozef and Fanny Tennenbaum. The family led a happy life in Lvov, Poland, where his father owned a fruit import/export business. The Tennenbaum family's feelings of security collapsed, however, following the Nazi occupation of Lvov in the summer of 1941. In August 1942 the family was herded into the Kleparow ghetto on the outskirts of Lvov. A few months later eleven-year-old David and his mother escaped from the ghetto. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tells how a Ukrainian professor - a family friend - assisted in their escape and found them a temporary hiding place at the home of an ethnic German in Lvov. Ironically, the son of the professor was a member of the Ukrainian SS then serving on the eastern front. The professor secured false papers for David and his mother and found them a long term hiding place in December 1942 in the village of Zimna Woda. They were taken in by an elderly, retired, schoolteacher named Mrs. Sokolinska. The timing of their move to Zimna Woda was very fortunate - shortly after they left their first hiding place it was raided and those living there were arrested. Fanny hid under name of Franciszka Maria Wieczorkowska, while David, who had grown his hair long, passed as her daughter, Teresa Marja Wieczorkowska. He also pretended to be retarded so as to avoid having to take the required physical examination to attend school. David passed his time playing by himself and reading among the many books in the house. In September 1944 David and his mother were liberated by the Soviet army. His father had disappeared - presumably he was deported to the Janowska KZ camp and murdered.

Diepreiye Alamieyeisegha

2005

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, during his tenure as Bayelsa State Governor, escaped from London, where he had been detained over allegations of money laundering. The governor pulled a fast one on British police when a group of ten gaily-dressed women posing as relations from Ijaw visited him while under house arrest. Undercover security personnel, who were maintaining surveillance over the house, had no cause to suspect foul play. Hours later, nine of the ladies emerged from the mansion and took off in the same vehicles they came in. Unknown to the Metropolitan Police, Alamieyeseigha, who by then had been disguised as a woman, was among them. Alamieyeseigha surfaced at Heathrow airport, still disguised as a woman and armed with travel documents bearing an assumed female name, boarded the Port Harcourt-bound British Airways flight. The “distinguished lady” actually traveled in the business class section. As soon as the flight touched down at about 8 am Sunday, the “distinguished lady” alighted and confidently walked down the tarmac where a boarded a car that took him straight to his hometown of Amassoma.

Dora Ratjen

1936

Dora Ratjen (1918 to 2008) was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later discovered to be male.

Dudley Clarke

1941

British spy Dudley Clarke (1899 to 1974) was arrested wearing women's clothing in Madrid in 1941.

E. Bouley

1941

-1906

In Word War II, the infamous Colditz Castle was home to a number of allied prisoners who longed for freedom by trying to escape. Prisoners at the castle were often taken down to the nearby park under guard for exercise. On 5th June 1941 a Frenchman Lieut. Chasseur Alpin E. Bouley decided to make a novel and daring escape. He had me his way out of a window into the outer courtyard and down the wall onto the main pathway leading to the castle. It was at this time that some prisoners were returning from the park and nearing the castle paused by a gate leading out to let a German woman through who was dressed in a skirt suit and hat. The German guards said nothing, but as the woman walked away from the castle, one of the prisoners noticed she had dropped her watch. "Hey, Fraulein, your watch!" he said. She didn't respond, so a guard went after her and found "her" to be “him”! This unknowing act cost Lieut. Bouley his chance of freedom and was taken back to the castle with the others.

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl Of Clarendon

1723

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (1661 to 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is perhaps best known for the claims of him crossdressing while in office. Cornbury is reported to have opened the 1702 New York Assembly clad in a hooped gown and an elaborate headdress and carrying a fan, imitative of the style of Queen Anne. When his choice of clothing was questioned, he replied, "You are all very stupid people not to see the propriety of it all. In this place and occasion, I represent a woman (the Queen), and in all respects I ought to represent her as faithfully as I can." It is also said that in August, 1707, when his wife Lady Cornbury died, His High Mightiness (as he preferred to be called) attended the funeral again dressed as a woman. It was shortly after this that mounting complaints from colonists prompted the Queen to remove Cornbury from office.

El Baile De Los 41 (Dance Of The 41)

1901

The Dance of the 41 was a society scandal in early 20th-century Mexico, during the presidency of Porfirio Diaz. The incident revolved around a police raid carried out on 18 November 1901 against a private home, the site of a dance attended by a group of men, of whom 19 were dressed in women's clothing. The press was keen to report the incident, in spite of the government's efforts to hush it up, since the participants belonged to the upper echelons of society. The list of the detainees was never published. As a result of the scandal, the number 41 was adopted by Mexican popular parlance to refer to homosexuality.

Elagabalus (Heliogabalus)

222

The Syrian-born teenaged Roman emperor (203 to 222) dresses in silks, bathes with women, and demands to be treated as an empress. During her short reign, she seeks a surgeon to create a vagina for her male body.

Euclid Of Megara

-399

Euclid (-435 to -365) was born in Megara, but in Athens he became a follower of Socrates. So eager was he to hear the teaching and discourse of Socrates, that when, for a time, Athens had a ban on any citizen of Megara entering the city, Euclid would sneak into Athens after nightfall, disguised as a woman to hear him speak

Felix Yusupov

1967

-1809

Felix Yusupov (1887 to 1967) was a Russian aristocrat, prince and count from the Yusupov family. He is best known for participating in the assassination of Rasputin. He was also known for being a crossdresser.

Francis Stewart

1592

-2103

Francis Stewart, the 5th Earl of Bothwell (1562 to 1612). It was said that he dressed as a woman to infiltrate and capture Lochmaben Castle In June 1592.

Francisco Herrera Argueta

2017

-1906

Francisco Herrera Argueta AKA Don Chico, a gang leader in Honduras convicted of murder, tried to walk out of jail disguised as a woman but was caught when an alert guard noticed his uncomfortable walk in high heels.

François-Timoleon De Choisy

1724

François Timoleon, abbe de Choisy (1644 to 1724) was a French author. By a whim of his mother, the boy was dressed like a girl until he was eighteen, and, after appearing for a short time in man's costume, he resumed woman's dress on the advice--doubtless satirical--of Madame de La Fayette. He delighted in the most extravagant toilettes until he was publicly rebuked by the duc de Montausier, when he retired for some time to the provinces, using his disguise to assist his numerous intrigues.

Frank Stringfellow

1865

-1906

Frank Stringfellow (1840 to 1913) was a Confederate officer and spy in the American Civil War. He served as a scout and spy who quickly worked his way up in the ranks through his wit, sometimes even dressing as a woman to gather Union information or, according to his own tales, hiding under a woman’s large hoop skirt to avoid being caught.

George Booth

1659

-1612

George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (1622 to 1684). During an uprising arranged for 5 August 1659 in several districts, George Booth took charge of operations in Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales. After gaining control of Chester on the 19th, he issued a proclamation declaring that "arms had been taken up in vindication of the freedom of Parliament, of the known laws, liberty and property", and then marched towards York. The plot, however, was known to John Thurloe. Having been foiled in other parts of the country, Lambert's advancing forces defeated Booth's men at the Battle of Winnington Bridge near Northwich. Booth himself escaped disguised as a woman, but was discovered at Newport Pagnell on the 23rd whilst having a shave, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Giovanni Rebolledo

2013

A member of Colombia's dreaded "Los Topos" gang who escaped prison after being incarcerated last year was caught by police this week despite having undergone a very "convincing sex change." Giovanni Rebolledo, who was sentenced to serve 60 years for a laundry list of crimes that included robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and torture, had been living as a prostitute named Rosalinda in the northern coastal city of Barranquilla for the past two months. In addition to the assumed identity, Rebolledo also augmented his physical appearance with plastic surgery and a boob job. In the end, all his efforts did little to fool the fuzz. Rebolledo was ultimately identified and apprehended during a routine stop and frisk in a neighborhood known for its prostitution. Rebolledo's gang, Los Topos (The Moles), are infamous in Colombia's capital city of Bogota for employing women to seduce rich men who are then kidnapped and tortured for money.

Great Mother

-1000

Mesopotamian temples begin chronicling the worship of a “Great Mother” whose priestesses are males who are consecrated through a ceremony which includes castration. Records discovered in Assyrian, Akkadian and Babylonian societies confirm the existance of the belief system.

Henk Jonker

1945

-1906

Henk Jonker was a member of the Dutch resistance in Worl War II, who disguised himself as a woman. Tall and blond, he dyed his hair black and disguised as a female nurse named Helene Annie Smitshuisen.

Heracles (Hercules)

-1000

Demi-god Heracles shed his male habits, put on female clothes and then labored under the rulership of Eyrystheus. Another story has Heracles dressed in female garb to serve Omphale, Queen of Lydia, in order to learn humility on the orders of the Oracle at Delphi.

Hermaphroditus

-1000

Son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He was very handsome and when, as a young man he left home, the Naiad Salmacis fell passionately in love with him. He repulsed her, but when, later on, he inadvertently bathed in her spring, she embraced him and pulled him down into the pool, praying to the gods that she and he might forever be united. Their bodies joined into one, becoming a hermaphrodite. As a result of Hermaphroditus' prayers to his parents, the spring exercised a like effect on all men who bather in it thereafter.

Hirja

1300

A tradition emerges among Muslim royal courts of genetic men who live and perform as women. In the Indian sub-continent, they're called “hirja”.

Hisham II

1013

-1703

Hisham II (965 to 1013) was the third Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus. Confined in the Palace he would visit the city of Codoba disguised as a woman escorted by concubines of his own harem

Hittite Military Oath

-1600

The text is in Old Hittite and prescribes the oath to be taken by military commanders. More precisely, it describes a series of symbolic actions intended to represent the afflictions that should befall the oath-takers should they break their word. On one occasion, for example, women's clothing, a spindle and an arrow is brought before those swearing their allegiance. The arrow is broken, and they are told that should they break their oath, their weapons should likewise be broken, and they should be made women and given women's tasks. Then, a blind and deaf woman is brought before them, and they are told that if they break their word, they will be made blind and deaf women like this one.

Ishida Mitsunari

1600

-2203

Ishida Mitsunari (1559 to 1600) was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. When an attempted murder of Mitsunari on Tokugawa Ieyasu leaked out, all the daimyo involved wanted to see the agitator dead. Mitsunari fled in a cloak-and-dagger operation, disguised as a female and hidden in a woman´s sedan, out of Osaka Castle.

Isthar

-1000

Ancient Assyrians had religious figures who dressed as women to embody the goddess Ishtar, claiming they had been transformed into women in an attempt to impress the people of both their piety and the goddess’ power.

James II

1648

-1806

James II of England (1633 to 1701). In the English Civil War he was captured and confined in St. James's Palace. Disguised as a woman, he escaped from the Palace in 1648 with the help of Joseph Bampfield, and crossed the North Sea to The Hague

Jeong Misu

1456

-1803

Jeong Misu (1456 to ?) was the son of Princess Gyeonghye. When She was pregnant King Sejo threatened that if she had a boy the child would be killed. Queen Jeonghui, however, issued instructions that the child be spared regardless of its sex, telling the eunuch in charge that she would take resonsibility for deceiving Sejo. After Princess Gyeonghye gave birth to her son in exile in 1456, the eunuch dressed the child in female clothes and took it to the court, where He was raised as a girl.

John Rykener

1395

On 11 December 1395 were brought in the presence of Mayor John Fressh, and the Aldermen of the City of London, John Britby of the county of York and John Rykener, calling himself Eleanor, having been detected in women's clothing, who were found last Sunday night between the 8 and 9 hours by certain officials of the city lying by a certain stall in Soper's Lane committing that detestable and unmentionable and ignominious vice. In a separate examination held before the Mayor and Aldermen about the occurrence, John Britby confessed that he was passing through the high road of Cheap on Sunday between the above mentioned hours and accosted John Rykener, dressed up as a woman, thinking he was a woman, asking him as he would a woman if he could commit a libidinous act with her. Requesting money for his labor Rykener consented, and they went together to the aforesaid stall to complete the act, and were captured there during these detestable wrongdoings by the officials and taken to prison. And John Rykener was brought here in woman's clothing and questioned about this matter, acknowledged himself to have done everything just as John Britby had confessed. Rykener was also asked who had taught him to exercise this vice, and for how long and in what places and with what persons, masculine or feminine, he had committed that libidinous and unspeakable act. He swore willingly on his soul that a certain Anna, the whore of a former servant of Sir Thomas Blount, first taught him to practice this detestable vice in the manner of a woman. He further said that a certain Elizabeth Bronderer first dressed him in women's clothing; she also brought her daughter Alice to diverse men for the sake of lust, placing her with those men in their beds at night without light, making her leave early in the morning and showing them the said John Rykener dressed up in women's clothing, calling him Eleanor and saying that they had misbehaved with her. He further said that certain Phillip, rector of Theydon Garnon, had sex with him as with a woman in Elizabeth Bronderer's house outside Bishopsgate, at which time Rykener took away two gowns of Phillip', and when Phillip requested them from Rykener he said that he was the wife ofa certain man and that if Phillip wished to ask for them back he would make his husband bring suit against him. Rykener further confessed that for five weeks before the feast of St. Michael's last he was staying at Oxford, and there, in women's clothing and calling himself Eleanor, worked as an embroideress; and there in the marsh three unsuspecting scholars - of whom one was named Sir William Foxlee, another Sir John, and the third Sir Walter - practiced the abominable vice with him often. John Rykener further confessed that on Friday before the feast of St. Michael he came to Burford in Oxfordshire and there dwelt with a certain John Clerk at the Swan in the capacity of tapster for the next six weeks, during which time two Franciscans, one named Brother Michael and the other Brother John, who gave him a gold ring, and one Carmelite friar and six foreign men committed the above-said vice with him, of whom one gave Rykener twelve pence, one twenty pence, and one two shillings. Rykener further confessed that he went to Beaconsfield and there, as a man, had sex with a certain Joan, daughter of John Matthew, and also there two foreign Franciscans hall sex with him as a woman. John Rykener also confessed that after his last return to London a certain Sir John, once chaplain at the Church of St. Margaret Pattens, and two other chaplains committed with him the aforementioned vice in the lanes behind St. Katherine's Church by the Tower of London. Rykener further said that he often had sex as a man with many nuns and also had sex as a man with many women both married and otherwise, how many he did not know. Rykener further confessed that many priests had committed that vice with him as a woman, how many he did not know, and said that he accommodated priests more readily than other people because they wished to give him more than others.

John/Eleanor Rykener

1394

-2409

John Rykener, also known as Eleanor, was a 14th-century sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with John Britby, a man who was a former chaplain of the St Margaret Pattens church, in London's Cheapside while wearing female attire.

Jordi Keiter Villa Leon

2018

-1806

Jordi Keiter Villa Leon appeared on the list of the most wanted and, to avoid being caught by justice, changed his sex. Thus, Villa Leon left the pants and shirts and changed them into tight shorts and low-cut tops. But the disguise did not last long and thanks to the intelligence agents of the police it was possible to arrest this criminal accused of human trafficking.

Juan Bautista Bairoletto

1919

Juan Bautista Bairoletto (1894 to 1941) was an Argentine bandit. In 1919 he disguised as a woman to attend his father funeral.

Juan De Luna

1453

-1612

Juan de Luna (1435 to 1456) was the son of Alvaro de Luna (Favourite of King John II of Castile). When his father was arrested in 1453, he escaped disguised as a woman.

Kenneth H. Dahlberg

1944

-1906

Kenneth H. Dahlberg (1917 to 2011) was an american fighter ace in Word War II. He was shot down three times. The first time, he bailed out near Paris, and was sheltered by the French Resistance. Disguised as a woman, he rode a bicycle to Allied lines 40 miles away.

Kottankulangara Festival

1000

-1803

The Kottankulangara Festival is an annual Hindu festival in Kerala, India in which thousands of men dress as women. The festival takes place at the Kottankulangara Devi Temple at Kollam, which is sacred to the goddess Bhagavathy. On the festival day thousand of Devotees visit the Temple to seek the blessings of the Goddess Bhagavathy. The men dress up in the female attire of their choice. Some wear Set saari, Pattu saari, half saari or even dance costumes.

Krishna

-1000

Aravanan, who was to be sacrificed to help win the Mahabharata war, didn't want to die a virgin and so, on the night before he was to die, he married Lord Krishna who took on the form of the female Mohini. Staying a woman for thirty days after to moan him as a widow.

Leucippus

-1000

-1703

Leucippus was the son of Oenomaus, the king of Pisa, and brother of Hippodamia. It was already known though that Daphne had decided to avoid the company of men, and in order to get close to Daphne, Leucippus disguised himself as a girl. Leucippus managed to get close to Daphne, and by accompanying her and the other huntresses in the chase, the two became friends; and of course, in certain circumstances, friendship can lead to more. Apollo looked upon the success that Leucippus was having with the beautiful Daphne and became jealous. Apollo managed to put the thought into the mind of Daphne and the other huntresses that it would be a good idea to cool off by bathing in the River Ladon. By the banks of the river and the women stripped off, but when Daphne and the others noticed the reticence of Leucippus to join them. Suspicious, Daphne and the other huntresses ripped the clothes off of Leucippus revealing that he was a man. Daphne was angry at the deception of her “friend”, and so she and the other huntresses plunged their weapons into Leucippus, killing him.

Lili Elbe

1931

Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe (1882 to 1931), was a Danish transgender woman and one of the first identifiable recipients of sex reassignment surgery. Elbe was born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener, and was a successful artist under that name. She also presented as Lili, sometimes spelled Lily, and was publicly introduced as Einar's sister. After transitioning, however, she made a legal name change to Lili Ilse Elvenes and stopped painting. Elbe met Gerda Gottlieb at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and they married in 1904, when she was 21 and Gottlieb 19. The two of them worked as illustrators. Elbe started dressing in women's clothes one day filling in for Gottlieb's absentee model; she was asked to wear stockings and heels so her legs could substitute for those of the model. Elbe felt surprisingly comfortable in the clothing. Over time, Gottlieb became famous for her paintings of beautiful women with haunting almond-shaped eyes dressed in chic fashions. In 1913, the unsuspecting public was shocked to discover that the model who had inspired Gottlieb's depictions of petite femmes fatales was in fact Gottlieb's spouse, "Elbe". In the 1920s and 1930s Elbe regularly presented as a woman, attending various festivities and entertained guests in her house. One of the things she liked to do was to disappear, wearing her modeling fashions into the streets of Paris in the throngs of revelers during the Carnival. Elbe was introduced by Gottlieb as Einar Wegener's sister when she was dressed in female attire. Only her closest friends knew once she had transitioned. In 1930 Elbe went to Germany for sex reassignment surgery, which was experimental at the time. A series of four operations were carried out over a period of two years.The first surgery, removal of the testicles, was made under the supervision of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin. The rest of Elbe's surgeries were carried out by Kurt Warnekros, a doctor at the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic. The second operation was to implant an ovary onto her abdominal musculature, the third to remove the penis and the scrotum. At the time of Elbe's last surgery her case was already a sensation in newspapers of Denmark and Germany. A Danish court invalidated the Wegeners' marriage in October 1930, and Elbe managed to get her sex and name legally changed, including receiving a passport as Lili Ilse Elvenes. She stopped painting, believing it to be something that was part of the identity of Einar. After the dissolution of her marriage, she returned to Dresden for a final surgery. In June 1931 she had her fourth operation, which was to create a vagina and allow her to get married, should she wish to do so. She died three months after the surgery.

Liz Carmichael

1975

-1912

Geraldine Elizabeth "Liz" Carmichael (1937 to 2004) was a U.S. entrepreneur who marketed the three-wheel Dale sports car in 1975. The Dale car was a design of Dale Clifft and was supposed to be produced by Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp in California. According to Twentieth Century's 1975 brochure, it had a two-cylinder engine, would reach 70 mpg and would cost $2000. The body was to be constructed out of 'rocket structural resin' that would withstand damage well. There were only three prototype copies and only one of them could move under its own power. After having raised a large amount of money from investors, Carmichael disappeared and the funds were unaccounted for. In the later trial, Clifft stated that he still believed in Carmichael and expected large royalties once the car would go into production. In fact he received only $1001 and a bum check. Carmichael was charged with grand theft, fraud and securities violations. Once arrested it was discovered that Carmichael was actually a male born Jerry Dean Michael. His wife was the former Vivian Barrett and they were the parents of five children. Carmichael stated she had undergone hormone therapy and was in the process of completing a sex change. Carmichael had previously been charged by the FBI for alleged involvement in a counterfeiting operation. Following her arrest related to the Dale car, Carmichael's bail was paid by a news station who was guaranteed the rights to her story. She subsequently jumped bail and remained at large until the airing of an Unsolved Mysteries episode in 1989. This episode revealed that Carmichael had been working as a flower vendor in Dale, Texas under the name Kathryn Elizabeth Johnson. Unverified sources report that Carmichael died of cancer in February 2004.

Lucy Hicks Anderson

1945

-2212

Lucy Hicks Anderson (née Lawson) (1886 to 1954) was an American socialite and chef, best known for her time in Oxnard, California, from 1920 to 1946.Assigned male at birth, she was adamant from an early age that she was a girl. Her parents, based on advice from doctors, supported her decision to live as one. She later established a boarding house in Oxnard, where she became a popular hostess. In 1945, a year after she married her second husband, she was arrested, tried and convicted of perjury, as the government said she had lied about her sex on her marriage license. After her release from prison, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles.

Luis Fernandez

1900

-1612

Luis Fernandez (1873 to 193?) was a spanish born argentinian trasvestite and con man. When he arrived to argentina around 1900, and seeing the shortage of women in the “entertaiment industry” of Buenos Aires, he started to crossdress and sing in the port nighclubs. He quicly became an expert in seduce rich and important men to later reveal himself to be a male and blackmail into paying to avoid scandal. At one point he formed a band with other transvestite to blackmail the men they could con. After being deported to Chile he did the same posing as a widow and later in Peru posing as the daugher of a mexican diplomat.

Mary Jones

1836

-2212

Mary Jones (1803 to ?) was an american transgender prostitute and soldier. According to The Sun, she would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine attire and wearing a prosthetic vagina at night to solicit sexual services for men and steal their money. She is most well known for being the subject of a trial in 1836 where she was charged with grand larceny for stealing the wallets of men she engaged in sexual acts with. She is considered to be one of the first recorded openly transgender people in New York history.

Mathew Carey

1874

-2209

Mathew Carey (1760 to 1839) was a radical Irish Catholic pamphleteer who fled prosecution in Dublin in 1784. Disguised as a woman, he boarded a ship and escaped to the United States.

Mrs. Corporal Noonan

1878

Mrs. Corporal Noonan (? to 1878) dies after ten years’ service with the US Army’s famed Seventh Calvary, which included service with Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of the infamous general as a laundress. While her body was being prepared for burial, Mrs. Noonan’s was found to be male.

Muhammad III

1025

-1703

Muhammad III (? to 1025) was an Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba in Al-Andalus. He escaped disguised as a woman when the people of Cordoba revolted against him

Nathaniel Lyon

1861

Nathaniel Lyon (1818 to 1861) was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War and is noted for his actions in the state of Missouri at the beginning of the conflict. Lyon allegedly disguised himself as a farm woman to spy on the State Guard's camp and then claimed that he had uncovered a plan by Governor Jackson to seize the Federal arsenal for Missouri state guard.

Nero

Roman emperor Nero (37 to 68) is said to have forced a male slave by the name of Sporus to have a form of sex change (most likely a penectomy) and married him because he looked like Nero’s slain wife.

Parsondas

-700

Nanybrus, satrap of Babylon, became a man of dress, show, and effeminacy, unworthy of the kingdom he held. Understanding that a certain robust Mede, called Parsondas, held him in the utmost contempt, and had solicited the emperor of the Medes to divest him of his dominions, and to confer them upon himself, Nanybrus offered a very great reward to the man who should take Parsondas, and bring him to him. Parsondas hunting near Babylon with the king of the Medes, and straggling from the company, happened to fall in with some of the servants of Nanybrus, who were purveyors to the king; and Parsondas being thirsty, asked a draught of wine, which they not only granted, but prevailed upon him to take a meal with them. As he drank freely, suspecting no treachery, he was easily persuaded to pass that night with some beautiful women, brought on purpose to detain him. But, while he was in a profound sleep, the servants of Nanybrus bound him, and carried him to their prince, who reproached him for endeavouring to estrange the king of the Medes from him, and by that means place himself in his room on the throne of Babylon. Parsondas did not deny the charge, but with intrepidity owned, that he thought himself more worthy of a crown, than such an indolent and effeminate prince as he was. Nanybrus, highly provoked, swore by the gods Belus and Mylitta, that Parsondas himself should soon become so effeminate as to reproach none with effeminacy. Accordingly he ordered the eunuch who had the charge of his music women, to shave, paint, and dress him after their manner, and, in short, to transform him as much a possible into a music woman. His orders were obeyed; and the manly Parsondas soon exceeded, the fairest female in singing and playing, and other arts of allurement. In the mean time, the king of the Medes, having in vain sought after his favourite servant, though he offered great rewards for any information concerning him, concluded that he had been destroyed by some wild beast in the chase. At length after seven years, the Mede was informed of his condition by an eunuch, who being cruelly scourged by Nanybrus's orders, fled, at the instigation of Parsondas, into Media, and there disclosed the whole to the king, who immediately despatched an officer to demand him. Nanybrus pretended to know nothing of any such person; upon which another officer was sent by the Mede, with a peremptory order to seize on Nanybrus if he persisted in the denial, and lead him to immediate execution. Upon this the Babylonian owned what he had before denied, and promised to comply with the king's demand; invited the officer to a banquet, at which one hundred and fifty women, among whom was Parsondas, made their appearance, singing and playing upon various instruments. Nanybrus enquiring of the Mede which he liked best, he immediately pointed at Parsondas. At this, the Babylonian falling into an immediate fit of laughter, told him who the person was whom he thus preferred to all the fine ladies; adding, that he could answer for what he had done before the king of the Medes. The officer was less surprised at such an astonishing change, than his master afterwards, when Parsondas appeared before him. The only favour Parsondas begged of the king, for all his past services, was, that he would avenge on the Babylonian the base and injurious treatment he had met with. The Mede marched accordingly to Babylon, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of Nanybrus, urging, that Parsondas had, without the least provocation, endeavoured to deprive him of both his life and kingdom, declared that in ten days he would pass sentence on him as he deserved, for presuming to act as judge in his own cause, instead of appealing to him. But Nanybrus having bribed Mitrophernes, the Mede's favourite eunuch, the king was by him prevailed upon to sentence the Babylonian only to a fine, which made Parsondas curse the first discoverer of gold, for the sake of which he was to live the derision of an effeminate Babylonian.

Pat Reid

1940

-1906

In Word War II, British Captain Pat Reid (1910 to 1980) was sent to Oflag VII. C prison camp at Laufen about fifteen miles northeast of Salzburg. It was here on September 5th 1940 that he made his first escape from a prisoner of war camp. His plan was to escape through a tunnel with three friends all in female disguises and to get as far away from the town as he could. He thought that if the Germans had discovered his escape too early, they would be looking for a man and not a woman. Their female clothing consisted of a coloured handkerchief as a headscarf, a white sports shirt, which would double up as a blouse and a skirt made from a pair of curtains. They shaved their legs and used iodine to give them a sunburnt look and wore black plimsolls on their feet. They had a few problems getting clear of the camp and were clear of the town shortly after dawn. Once safely in the woods and out of site they changed back into male attire and continued on their way.

Paul Thiebault

1781

-1712

Paul Thiebault (1769 to 1846) was a general who fought in Napoleon's army. In his “Memoires” Thiebault relates how he dressed as a girl for a theatrical play he performed on his mother's birthday, when he was about twelve. He looked so much like a pretty girl in her late teens that his mother could not recognise him... and when he went out for a walk with this attire, he was followed around by enamoured gendarmes.

Pentheus

-1000

Pentheus is inveigled into going up Mt. Cithaeron and spy on the Maenads, whom he suspected of sexual licence. While the women of his family, under the influence of Bacchic frenzy, roamed the mountains with the Maenads, Pentheus, disguised as a woman, climbed a tree to watch their revels. His mother and aunt saw him there and in their madness, thought him a lion and tore him to pieces.

Publius Clodius Pulcher

-62

-2203

Publius Clodius Pulcher (-93 to -52) was a populist Roman politician and street agitator during the time of the First Triumvirate. In December of 62 BC, the rites of the Bona Dea were held at the Regia, the official residence of the Pontifex Maximus, Rome's chief priest. The celebration was a sacred mystery, from which all men were excluded; not even the Pontifex Maximus could be in attendance. The rites were hosted by Caesar's wife, Pompeia, and mother, Aurelia, under the supervision of the Vestals. Clodius managed to gain entry to the rites, disguised as a woman, apparently with the intention of seducing Pompeia, but was discovered in the course of the evening. Clodius' mere presence at the rites was sacrilegious, but profaning the ceremonies in order to seduce the wife of the Pontifex Maximus was regarded as an even greater offense to the goddess.

Rebecca Riots

1839

-1712

The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South and Mid Wales. They were a series of protests undertaken by local farmers and agricultural workers in response to perceived unfair taxation. The rioters, often men dressed as women, took their actions against toll-gates, as they were tangible representations of high taxes and tolls.

Richard Thomas Zarvona

1861

Richard Thomas Zarvona (1833 to 1875) was a Confederate colonel who hijacked ships while disguised as a french woman.

Ryoukan

1831

-1612

Ryoukan Taigu (1758 to 1831) was a quiet and eccentric Soutou Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. It is said that Ryoukan attended the midsummer Bon Festivals. Because he was a monk, he would normally be unable to attend, but sneaked in disguised as a woman.

Sardanapalus

-700

Sardanapalus (or Sardanapallus) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias of Cnidus, the last king of Assyria, although in actuality Ashur-uballit II (612-605 BC) holds that distinction. Ctesias' Persica is lost, but we know of its contents by later compilations and from the work of Diodorus. In this account, Sardanapalus, supposed to have lived in the 7th century BC, is portrayed as a decadent figure who spends his life in self-indulgence and dies in an orgy of destruction.Diodorus s ays that Sardanapalus exceeded all previous rulers in sloth and luxury. He spent his whole life in self-indulgence. He dressed in women's clothes and wore make-up.

Seeadler

1916

-1906

The Seeadler was a german corsair ship in Word War I. The captain’s spouse, “Josefeena” was played well-enough by crewman Hugo Schmidt, in drag.

Siproites

-1000

Cretan Siproites saw Artemis bathing, and for that he was turned into a woman by the goddess.

Stanisława Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh)

1980

Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911 to 1980) was a Polish track and field athlete, who became a women's champion in the Olympic 100 metres. It was later learned that Walasiewicz had ambiguous genitalia and was intersex.

Sylvin Rubinstein

1945

-1906

Sylvin Rubinstein (1914 to 2011) was a jewish resistance fighter in Word War II, who killed Nazis in occupied Poland - and even in the heart of Berlin - during World War II. Rubinstein used his ability to pass as a woman in these missions.

Thor

-1000

In Norse mythology, Thor was a female impersonator. In one story, the Giant Thrym had Thor's hammer Mjolnir stolen while he slept and hid it eight miles under the earth. He agreed to return it if Freya was delivered to him as his bride. Freya was unagreeable, so Heimdahl suggested they send a phony Freya. Thor dressed in Freya's bridal garments and Loki travelled as her bridegroom to trick Thrym and get Mjolnir back.

Tiresias

-1000

There is a famous mythological story about Tiresias. On Mount Cyllene in the Peloponnese, as Tiresias came upon a pair of copulating snakes, he hit the pair a smart blow with his stick. Hera was not pleased, and she punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman. As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including Manto, who also possessed the gift of prophecy. According to some versions of the tale, Lady Tiresias was a prostitute of great renown. After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes; depending on the myth, either she made sure to leave the snakes alone this time, or, according to Hyginus, trampled on them. As a result, Tiresias was released from his sentence and permitted to regain his masculinity.

Tommy Keele

1917

-1906

British soldier Tommy Keele (1893 to ???) served his country on the Western Front in Word War I. Unlike the others, however, he did it dressed as a woman. For the first three years of the war, Tommy was an ordinary lance corporal in the Middlesex Regiment. At the start of 1917, he joined the Ace of Spades concert party as “First Girl”. Under the stage name Dot Keele, he took female parts in theatres behind the lines for the entertainment of sex-starved soldiers.

Tommy Thompson

1945

-1906

Broadway dancer Tommy Thompson is drafted into the Army in World War II. During the voyage to Europe, he's told he's joining the Special Services (the Army’s entertainment unit) undercover: Tommy is to entertain the troops in the China-Burma-India theater as a woman named Marylin Lee... not as a drag role but a true impersonation! Marylin tours the jungles for months until she’s called home when her mother falls ill.

Tony Starr

1945

-1906

After the end of Word War II, in the occupation of Korea to disarm the japanese, a group of soldiers put together a show “Bits Of Burlesque” to entertain the troops. The show consisted of soldiers dressed in short skirts with coconut-stuffed bra tops doing chorus dances in combat boots making for a hilarious act. Tony Starr was the star as he did the strip tease as per burlesque shows. He had an authentic costume he wore during his dance. The soldiers in the audience actually thought he was female.

Ulm

1701

-1703

In the year 1701 Bavarian forces (allied with France) took the city of Ulm. They sent soldiers disguised as peasant men and women to infiltrate the city and take one of the doors of the walls.

Ulrich Von Lichtenstein

1275

Ulrich Von Lichtenstein (1200 to 1275) is famous for his supposedly autobiographical poetry collection Frauendienst (Service of the Lady). He writes of himself as a protagonist who does great deeds of honor to married noblewomen, following the conventions of chaste courtly love. The protagonist embarks on two remarkable quests. In the first quest, he travels from Venice to Vienna in the guise of Venus, the goddess of love. He competes in jousts and tourneys and challenges all the knights he meets to a duel in the honour of his lady. He breaks 307 lances and defeats all comers. The noblewoman, however, mostly spurns his affections and demands more deeds and even mutilation for even the honour to hold her hand.

Varelita

1961

-1412

Argentine gangster Ruben Adhemar Garcia (Varelita) escaping from uruguyan police disguised as a woman, but is recognized and captured.

Venetian Transvestite

1354

12 Mar 1354. In Venice, a crossdresser was arrested, forced to confess under torture, then one week later, burned at the stake for his “crime”.

Vidocq

1798

Eugene François Vidocq (1785 to 1857) was a French criminal and criminalist whose life story inspired several writers. The former criminal became the founder and first director of the crime-detection Surete Nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. On 28 February 1798, he escaped from a prison hospital disguised as a nun.

Vishnu

-1000

Vishnu changes himself into a beautiful woman, Mohini the Enchantress, in order to distract some demons. Shiva is so enchanted by her that he begs Vishnu for a repeat performance. When Vishnu complies, Shiva rapes her.

Waleed Hammad

2013

Waleed Hammad dressed conservatively for his secret mission into the world of sexual harassment and abuse on the streets of Cairo, donning a long tan skirt and sleeved shirt, and at times covering his head like many Egyptian women. The 24-year-old actor walked the sidewalks, hidden cameras in tow, for an investigative television report, hoping the broadcast would enlighten national debate about how to combat deep-rooted day-to-day sexual harassment and abuse in this patriarchal society. As he strolled, Hammad, who wore light makeup to conceal hints of facial hair and accentuate his eyes, was hissed at and verbally abused. In one instance, when he was wearing a head veil, he was taken for a prostitute.

William J. Sharkey

1872

-1612

William J. Sharkey (1847 to ?) was a convicted murderer and minor New York City politician who earned national notoriety in the late 19th century for escaping from a New York City prison disguised as a woman. He subsequently fled to Cuba, which had no extradition treaty with the United States. He was never captured and his ultimate fate is unknown.

William Maxwell

1716

William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676 to 1744) was a Catholic nobleman, who took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715. Nithsdale was captured at Preston together with other Jacobite leaders, found guilty of treason, and sentenced to death. The night before the day appointed for his execution (24 February 1716), he effected an escape from the Tower of London meticulously planned by his daring and devoted Wife, who had been admitted to his room. By exchanging clothes with his wife's maid, he escaped the attention of his guards. He fled to Rome, where he lived with his wife until his death.

William Price

1839

-1612

William Price (1800 to 1893) was a Welsh physician known for his support of Welsh nationalism, Chartism and his involvement with the Neo-Druidic religious movement. In 1839 the Newport Rising took place, when many of the Chartists and their working class supporters rose up against the authorities, only to be quashed by soldiers, who killed a number of the revolutionaries. Price himself had recognised that this would happen, and he and his supporters had not joined in with the rebellion on that day. Nonetheless, he also realised that the government would begin a crackdown of those involved in the Chartist movement in retaliation for the uprising, and so he fled to France, disguised as a woman.

Woo Jung-hoon

2017

-1803

Korean police officer dressed as woman catches 20 drug criminals. Officer Woo Jung-hoon of Anyangmanan Police Station is 170 centimeters in height and 62 kilograms in weight making it easier for him to be disguised as a woman. It recently came to the attention of the police that narcotics addicts often looked for paid hookups through smartphone dating apps. The police found that it was easy to approach these offenders online under the pretense of being a woman, but actual arrests were difficult as the suspects would remain hidden and check from afar whether the person turning up at the promised meeting spot was indeed a woman. The Anyangmanan Police Station has only one female detective, and it was a risk for her to fight the criminals on her own. Woo, 32, volunteered to dress up as a woman to go undercover.

Yamato Takeru

114

Prince Yamato Takeru (72 to 114) was a Japanese legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty. His father, the emperor Keikō, feared his brutal temperament. To keep him at a distance, the father sent him to Izumo Province, and then the land of Kumaso. He succeeded in defeating his enemies, in the latter case by crossdressing as a maid attendant at a drinking party.

Zeus (Jupiter)

-1000

Zeus changed himself into a female and posed as Artemis/Diana to seduce Callisto.