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Transwomen firsts 'as women' and list topping

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Ouchbirthhurted · 20/02/2018 12:17

I am interested in instances of transwomen who have been reported as the first 'women' to do something, or who are now high up or top women's success/achievement lists.

So for example, a poster on another thread mentioned this: Introduced on Today as first woman infantry soldier on front line. Only later in programme was it revealed the person concerned was a TIM. Papers say had only been taking hormones for a very short time but not mentioned by BBC. I complained at the time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-37391807

This article from a few years back says that the highest paid 'woman' CEO in America is a transwoman:
nymag.com/news/features/martine-rothblatt-transgender-ceo/

Also interested in any instances of transmen firsts/list topping

Anyone else spotted anything?

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Polly99 · 20/02/2018 21:08

Pips Bunce, on the FT HERoes list as one of their women championing women in business. Pips is a man who describes himself as gender fluid. I think this means that some days he goes to work dressed as a woman and other days dressed as a man. The FT put him on the women’s list. There is also a list for men. As Pips lives part time both ‘as a woman’ and ‘as a man’ I find this odd. Perhaps the women’s list is for people the FT deem to be non-men?

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