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Michel-Marie Poulain was a trans woman who was a French Dragon soldier who escaped from a German Prison Camp in 1941.
She self-castrated herself in 1946 and began doing stained glass for churches and exhibiting paintings in Paris -- later opening her own gallery in Cannes.
She self-castrated herself in 1946 and began doing stained glass for churches and exhibiting paintings in Paris -- later opening her own gallery in Cannes.
She was often discredited by the trans community including European spokesperson Marie André as a bad example of a transsexual because she lived with her wife, who she met as a performer, and they had a daughter.
Her first art book was published in 1953 and then she wrote an autobiography "J'ai choisi mon sexe" ( I Choose My Sex) in 1954.
Her painting often depicted lesbian life and intimacy in Paris, motherhood, and a masc/femme duality of herself.
