Janine Wegman

Janine Wegman (25 September 1925 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch Hammond-organist and artist based in Rotterdam.

Wegman started her career as the magician ‘Rinus’, and later had success with her first wife with the act 'Marinio en Janine',[1][2] and appeared on national television in 1949.

[14] Since 1959 there was a General Police Regulation in Rotterdam in which Article 56, “Walking in disguise or masked”, was used to prevent transvestism.

After the first action in 1978, a civil registry officer scratched the V for Female in her passport, but this was not a legally valid change.

In 1996, after being castrated, and again appearing bare-chested at the counter and threatening with suicide, Janine Wegman was finally allowed to register as a woman at the registry office.