"Published to coincide with Carlotta's 60th birthday, the Balmain-born boy who had Australia's first sex-change operation and became the legend of the all-male review Les Girls. She is the self-styled Queen of the Cross. A fascinating, hilarious and sometimes moving journey through Carlotta's extraordinary life."
According to Wikipedia, Carlotta, born Carol Byron in 1943, is a transgender Australian cabaret performer and television personality, known for being an original cast member of the long-running Sydney-based male revue Les Girls cabaret show.
She appeared in the television series Number 96 in 1974 as Miss Robyn Ross, in a comedic storyline as the girlfriend of Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin), probably being the first transgender actress to have played a transgender TV character anywhere in the world,. In 2021, she announced that she is retiring from the industry. She had gender reassignment surgery in 1971 which, though not the first such procedure in Australia, was the first to receive major publicity. She authored two biographies: "He Did it her Way: Carlotta, legend of Les Girls" (1994) and "Carlotta: I'm not that kind of girl" (2003).
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