Portal:Transgender

Peppermint in 2017

Peppermint, or Miss Peppermint (born January 31, 1980), is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television personality, drag queen, and activist. She is best known from the nightlife scene and, in 2017, as the runner-up on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2018, Peppermint made her debut in The Go-Go's-inspired musical Head Over Heels as Pythio, becoming Broadway's first out trans woman to originate a lead role.

As a recording artist, she has released two studio albums, Hardcore Glamour, released in 2009, and Black Pepper, released in 2017, as well as five EPs, including A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers, which was released in 2020. In December 2023, she was announced as a part of the cast of the second season of The Traitors.

• ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?
• ... that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps?
• ... that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate?
• ... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
• ... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
• ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?

• 1 – Isis King (1985), American transgender model and actress
• 2 – Jan Morris (1926–2020), Welsh author
• 5 – Chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810), French spy, diplomat and soldier
• 6 – Jazz Jennings (2000), American transgender television personality
• 14 – Arca (1989), Venezuelan musician
• 21 – Natalie Wynn (1988), American transgender Youtuber
• 23 – Amandla Stenberg (1998), American non-binary actor and singer
• 24 – Anohni (1971), English singer and composer
• 25 – Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French photographer, sculptor and writer
• 25 – Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (1940), American transgender rights activist
• 26 – Holly Woodlawn (1946–2015), Puerto Rican transgender actress
• 28 – Caitlyn Jenner (1949), American television personality and Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.

• ... that African-American gay and transgender youth Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• ... that non-binary transgender actor Indya Moore became the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of the US version of Elle magazine when they were featured in May 2019?
• ... that Jennie June (b. 1874), one of the earliest transgender people to publish an autobiography in the US, published the first and second volumes in 1918 and 1922, and wrote a third volume which was discovered in 2010?

They can try to ban us. They can try to get rid of our health care. They can try to deny us housing, credit, and public accommodations. They can try to shame us. They can try all they want to erase us, but at some point, they will realize the trans community is never going away. Trans people are everywhere. Every country, every race, every ethnicity, every religion, every socioeconomic level, every period of human history — we are everywhere. We are natural. You can’t rid of what’s natural. I think they know that, and it terrifies them.