Fallon Fox

Fallon Fox is a retired MMA fighter and the first openly transgender athlete in MMA history. She faced her gender identity struggles as early as five or six according to Wikipedia. She didn’t encounter the term transgender until the age of 17. However, she remained heterosexual and even married her then-girlfriend at the young age of 19. The couple shares a daughter together. She would, later on, join the US Navy to support her growing family.

In fact, she served as an operation specialist on the USS Enterprise. When she left the Navy, she decided to get a degree at the University of Toledo but never succeeded because of her unresolved gender issues. She dropped out and worked as a truck driver so she can afford the reassignment surgery, which she fulfilled in 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand.