Julie Nemecek, as the Rev. John Nemecek, was a Baptist minister and longtime professor at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Mich. The school fired her in December 2006 after she had come out as transgender. She filed a discrimination claim that was later settled, and is now founder and head of a consulting company […]

The Rev. Drew Phoenix, who underwent sex-change surgery and changed his name from Anne Gordon, is executive director of Identity Inc., an LGBT advocacy group in Anchorage, Alaska.

Erin Swenson, a who lives in the Atlanta area and was ordained in 1973 as Eric Karl Swenson by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), in 1996 openly changed gender while working as a pastor. She is a licensed marriage therapist in Atlanta, Ga., where she works with individuals and families on gender identity issues.

Lucas Silveira, formerly Lilia Silveira, is the lead singer of the rock band The Cliks. He underwent sex-change surgery in 2006. Contact his manager,  Joy Collingbourne.

Michelle Prevost, who in the late 1990s transitioned from being a man to a woman, directed the documentary Trained in the Ways of Men, about the murder of 17-year-old Gwen Araujo. See her website.

Renee Richards, the physician and tennis player who was born Richard Raskind, wrote the 2007 book No Way, Renee: The Second Half of My Notorious Life. She lives in New York state. Contact through Simon & Schuster publicity.

Terri O’Connell was a racing champion as James Terrell Hayes before having sex-change surgery in 1992.

Margaret Stumpp, formerly Mark Stumpp, is chief investment officer with Quantitative Management Associates, an investment subsidiary of Prudential Financial in Newark, N.J.

Jennifer Finney Boylan, formerly James Boylan, is a fiction and nonfiction author and an English professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She wrote the best-selling memoir She’s Not There.