Transsexual 2007 to 2008, she also portrayed a transsexual character (this time recurring) in the ABC series "Dirty Sexy Money". "Hit & Miss" is a drama about Mia, played by "Chloë Sevigny", a preop transsexual woman who works as a contract killer and discovers she fathered a son. "There's Something About Miriam" was a 2003 reality television show. It featured six men wooing 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam without revealing that she was a pre-operative trans woman until the final episode. "Coronation Street" once had a transsexual woman named Hayley, who was Harold in her childhood. She died on 20 January 2014.
Transsexual to use the term to refer to those who desired a change of physiological sex. In 1969, Harry Benjamin claimed to have been the first to use the term "transsexual" in a public lecture, which he gave in December 1953. Benjamin went on to popularize the term in his 1966 book, "The Transsexual Phenomenon", in which he described transsexual people on a scale (later called the "Benjamin scale") of three levels of intensity: "Transsexual (nonsurgical)", "Transsexual (moderate intensity)", and "Transsexual (high intensity)". In his book, Benjamin described "true" transsexualism as the following: Benjamin suggested that moderate intensity male to female