A Trans-Woman You Probably Haven’t Heard About

There are many trans-women in the news now a days, movie actresses, fighters, ex-military, and writers, but you probably have not heard of this billionaire trans-woman… until now.

America's highest-paid businesswoman is a transgender married father-of-four who earns $38million-a-year
DailyMail
By Mia De Graaf
September 8, 2014

The highest paid female business executive in the United States was born a man.
Martine Rothblatt, who earns $38 million-a-year as head of United Therapeutics, was a married father-of-four before undergoing a sex change in 1994.

Born into a Jewish family in San Diego, Martin trained as a lawyer at UCLA, married, had children, and went into business.

Twenty years later, she has been named top in New York Magazine's list of the 200 most successful entrepreneurs - one of just 11 women in the list.

She has a MBA, a JD, and a PhD in Philosophy. She founded the first global satellite radio networks WorldSpace and Sirius Satellite Radio. When her daughter contracted a rare disease she foundered the medical biotechnology company United Therapeutics.

An article in the New Yorker said,

In 1995, just after her transition, Martine published The Apartheid of Sex, a slim manifesto that insisted on an overhaul of “dimorphic” (her word) gender categories. “There are five billion people in the world and five billion unique sexual identities,” she wrote. “Genitals are as irrelevant to one’s role in society as skin tone. Hence, the legal division of people into males and females is as wrong as the legal division of people into black and white races.” Instead, she suggested people might better express their gender and sexual identities on a spectrum, perhaps in terms of color: Green might be “an equally aggressive/nurturing person who does not try to appear sexy” (lime green would be someone a little less aggressive), and purple might be someone gentle, nourishing, and erotic in equal measure.

Me, I’m a lavender.