CAROLINE COSSEY

She/Her

“Caroline Cossey is a British model and actress who often worked under the name Tula, which she also used for two memoirs. Through puberty, Cossey was distinctly feminine in appearance due to an intersex variation of XXXY syndrome. In Cossey’s autobiography My Story, she describes an unhappy childhood, where she suffered confusing feelings and bullying by peers due to her femininity. Cossey started transitioning while working as an usherette in London’s West End. By seventeen, Cossey was receiving hormone therapy and working full-time as a showgirl. Following her breast augmentation surgery, Cossey worked as a showgirl in Paris and as a topless dancer in Rome, so she could save money for her sex reassignment surgery. After years of hormone therapy, Cossey had her final surgery on December 31, 1974, at Charing Cross Hospital, London. She appeared in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as an extra. Following her appearance in the film, she was outed as transgender by British tabloid News of the World. In 1991, she became the first trans woman to pose for Playboy. Cossey has since then fought for her right to legally marry and be legally recognised as a woman.” [Source]

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