Sports/Outdoors: Renee Richards

Renee Richards, born Richard Raskin, had been a good amateur male tennis player, but spent four years on the pro tour as a woman player. Richards' celebrity, however, came chiefly from having become the first transgendered tennis player on the tour.

Richard Raskin was captain of the Yale tennis squad, went to medical school, was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, married, had a son and was divorced prior to having gender-change surgery, which was done in New York.

In 1976, Richards was denied entry to play in the U.S. Open. She sued the U.S. Tennis Association, and in 1977, the Supreme Court of New York sided with her. She had reasonable success as a player, but never achieved significant celebrity status other than as the first transgendered player.

Richards practiced ophthalmology in both California and New York.