Lili Elbe (1882–1931)Lili Elbe is perhaps one of the more famous trans women in the last few centuries. She was one of the first-known recipients of gender confirmation surgery.
Lili began experimenting with dressing as a woman after her wife Gerda asked her to pose for a painting wearing women's clothing.
Lili quickly realized how at home she felt dressing as a woman and began doing so full-time. She received several surgeries from 1930 to 1931 and died of complications from a failed uterus transplant.
She was the second-known trans woman to undergo vaginoplasty. In 2015, Eddie Redmayne starred in the film adaptation of Lili's life titled The Danish Girl.2. Dora Richter (1891–1933)Dora began displaying more feminine desires and.