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Maryani poses at a special prayer school for transgendered Muslims or 'waria' on November 9, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Koran school was founded in July 2008 by the 48-year old Maryani as a place for waria to pray. Islam strictly segregates men from women when praying, leaving nowhere for 'the third sex' waria to pray before now. There are now estimated to be around 300 men who prefer to live as women in Yogyakarta, many of whom work in the sex industry as the only option to make a living.

Researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina constructed a functional male genitalia in rabbits that allowed the animals to mate and produce offspring. The research could someday lead to normal penile function in men with damaged erectile tissue.

On a collagen scaffold, which provided the organ structure, Atala and his group grew smooth muscle and endothelial cells, the same cells that make up blood vessels, harvested from rabbit erectile tissue.

The scaffold and cells were implanted into 12 rabbits, where the tissue continued to develop cite

The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.

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· Courtney Act, singer, gender illusionist, Australian Idol semi-finalist

· Calpernia Addams, actress, author, autobiographer, entrepreneur, activist, fiddle player

· Estelle Asmodelle, actress, author, dancer & Australia's First Legal Transsexual

· Allenina, actress

· Nadia Almada, Big Brother UK 2004 winner, transsexual

· Adèle Anderson, cabaret singer, actress, member of Fascinating Aida

· Enza "Supermodel" Anderson, drag performer