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Rupert Raj (born 1952) is a Canadian Eurasian, trans * activist and transsexual man. His work since his own gender transition in 1971 has been recognized by several awards, as well as his inclusion in the National Portrait Collection of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. ==Personal life== Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1952, Raj's father was East Indian and his mother Polish; they met in Stockholm where Raj's father, Amal Chandra Ghosh worked as a nuclear physicist. After the birth of their first child the family moved to Ottawa, Canada, where Amal took up a position as a professor of physics at Carleton University. Both parents were killed in a car accident in August 1968, when Raj was sixteen, and the five children (three brothers and one sister) moved into four different homes until they respectively reached 18 or 21 years of age.〔Elspeth Brown oral history interview with Raj, 23 Dec 2013 at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA ); ''The Ottawa Journal'', 19 Aug 1968, pg 22; ''The Ottawa Journal'', 22 August 1968, pg. 47.〕 In 1971, at age 19, Raj scheduled an appointment with the Harry Benjamin Foundation's endocrinologist, Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld. Since Raj wasn't yet 21, the age of majority in New York, his older brother provided consent. Dr. Ihlenfeld examined Raj and administered his first shot of testosterone.〔Rupert Raj, “My Male Metamorphosis,” pg. 4, c. 1988, Box 1, Rupert Raj Papers, CLGA.〕 Raj graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Carleton University in 1975, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, following two friends, both trans women activists who had been involved in the Association of Canadian Transsexuals (A.C.T.) in Toronto. Raj continued his activism by starting a petition to get Ontario to cover sex-reassignment surgery through the provincial health insurance plan, OHIP—an effort that was unsuccessful at the time. In May 1977, Raj moved with his trans male partner and his two children to Calgary, Alberta, because they had learned that surgeons at the Foothills Hospital, in affiliation with the University of Calgary's gender clinic were performing phalloplasties for female-to-male (FTM) transsexuals. While they were both approved for phalloplasty, neither of them had the surgery at that time; at only 100 pounds, the surgeons concluded that Raj did not have enough tissue to work with. Raj did, however, undergo the panhysterectomy at this time. And, after waiting for another 34 years, he finally underwent “bottom” surgery (not phalloplasty, but metoidioplasty in Montreal, Quebec in 2012 at age 60.〔Elspeth Brown oral history with Rupert Raj, 23 December 2013, CLGA; Elspeth Brown personal communication with Raj, 3 December 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rupert Raj」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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