Groundbreaking Transgender Celebrities (PHOTOS)
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Caitlyn Jenner makes her debut on the cover of Vanity Fair.
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Actress Laverne Cox walks the runway during the Go Red For Women 2015 fashion show.
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Chaz Bono is pictured at home in West Hollywood, California.
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Director Lana Wachowski speaks during a Cloud Atlas press conference in 2012.
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Model Andrej Pejic attends a screening of Magnolia Pictures’ Prince Avalanche in 2013.
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Renee Richards poses for a portrait on the front porch of her home in 2015. More than three decades after putting down her tennis racquet, Renee Richards, 80, told Reuters she is still astonished she possessed the moxie to join the women's professional tennis tour after living the first 34 years of her life as a man. For all the frenzy around Olympian Bruce Jenner’s reported decision to transition to a woman, the transgender pioneer Richards, born Richard Raskind, believes nothing could be tougher than what she endured in the 1970s.
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