Jamison Green

Jamison "James" Green (born November 8, 1948) is a prominent transgender rights activist, author, and educator focused on policy work.

Green is known as an activist for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights, and dignity of transgender and transsexual people.

[10] Building on his experience as an activist, Green earned his Ph.D. in Equalities Law from Manchester Metropolitan University in England in 2011.

Writing in The New York Times, Jennifer Finney Boylan described it as "the first great memoir by a trans man".

"[1] In 2009, Green was the first transgender person to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists.

[3] Green began his medical transition in the late 1980s with the intention of living openly about his transgender status.