A True Pioneer, April Ashley
George Jamieson, who later became April Ashley, was a model and actress in Paris. She led the way for the transgender community in Britain. At the age of 16, she joined the Merchant Navy despite her ill health.
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Quitting from the navy, she decided to get into the entertainment industry. Performing as a model and actress, she could afford to have gender reassignment surgery. People read her story in the magazine ‘Sunday People’ though she wasn’t willing to be the article’s subject.