April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Karen Jamieson grow. In 1980 Jamieson founded the Karen Jamieson Dance Company which features her choreography. Since then, Jamieson has focussed extensively on exploring dance as mythic thinking, and to creating a cross-cultural dialogue with First Nations artists. Jamieson began to work with residents of the Downtown Eastside in 2006, establishing a mentorship program for young dancers and choreographers. In 2016, she was recognized by the Isadora Award, "for her contribution to the overall development of dance in British Columbia and Canada," As of 2017, she has created almost 100 dance works. Karen Jamieson Karen Jamieson (born July 10, 1946) is a