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 Karen Jamieson Karen Jamieson (born July 10, 1946) is a Canadian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the early 1970s Jamieson moved to New York and performed with dancers Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Alwin Nikolais, and with choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Phyllis Lamhut. During her time in New York Jamieson studied classical modern dance techniques and began to develop her own choreography. Returning to Vancouver in 1974, Jamieson began teaching at Simon Fraser University. In 1975 Jamieson co-founded the experimental movement collective Terminal City Dance, where her reputation as a choreographer and dancer continued to