VIDEO: These 10 Male Celebrities Were All Born Women

The LGBT community is still raising a lot of controversies and the world is split into two parts: those that support them and think that they deserve to live normal lives and have the same rights as the rest of those and those that hate them and think that they are unnatural and shouldn’t be allowed to marry or even exist in the open.

While in recent years things have gotten better for them, there is still a long way to go until they are completely accepted everywhere. While people talk about gays and lesbians, the transgenders are the ones that are most frowned upon and people can’t really understand them.

The funny part is that there are quite a few of them that no one seems to know about and could go their entire lives without realizing that some women were men and some men were women.

According to oddee.com, there are a lot of famous men that we think of as being super manly that actually used to be women.

From Buck Angel to Loren Cameron, these ten men are all successful, handsome, and accomplished in their chosen fields. They were also all born as women!

Adult film maker and transsexual Buck Angel is now an icon in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community. But it wasn’t an easy ride.

When his secondary sex characteristics began to develop at around age 16, his home life became increasingly tense. Unaware of treatments for gender dysphoria, he lived for years as a female professional model, dissatisfied with his identity and existence.

Eventually, Buck Angel came to terms with his sexuality, became an adult film performer and the 2007 winner of the Adult Video News Award “Transsexual Performer of the Year”. He currently works as an advocate, educator, lecturer and writer, and runs his own production company.

Balian Buschbaum was born in 1980 as Yvonne Buschbaum, and he is a former German pole vaulter. Though he was the second best female pole vaulter in Germany, in 2007 Buschbaum announced his retirement due to a persistent injury.

He also expressed his desire to begin gender reassignment therapy. In 2008 he officially changed his name and underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a man.

Loren Rex Cameron is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work includes portraiture and self-portraiture which consist of lesbian and transsexual bodies; he documented his own physiological transition from female to male.

Cameron’s photography captures images of the transsexual body that “provide an affirming visual resource for transgendered people and to demystify the transsexual body for the non-transgendered viewer.”

American Ian Harvie is a stand-up comedian who often uses his transsexuality as material in his act. He has performed with Margaret Cho and many other notable celebrities and is a well-known fixture in the LGBT pop culture community.

Born in Canada in 1979, Lucas Silveira made history being the first openly-trans man to be in a rock band which was signed by a major record label. Silveira is a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for The Cliks, he has also released a new solo album which is available now.

Rocco Kayiatos is known as Katastrophe, an American hip-hop rapper and producer. Kayiatos is widely credited as the first openly transgender singer in the hip-hop genre.

Thomas Beatie gained international attention for being the one of the world’s most visible “pregnant” men. Born female, Beatie lived his life as a woman until his mid-twenties.

He then began taking male hormone therapy but decided to retain his female sex organs so that he and his wife, who could not conceive herself, could have children together using donor sperm. Beatie has since had three children and is back on his male hormones.