There have even been child presenters in the 90s a 14 year old FTM took a group of trans teens to Holland to find out what their prospects were (Channel 4). I am sure some trans kid has claimed they were the first recently - news just in you ain't not by your lifetime even...
As for Loose Women well here is Nadia on the panel from 2004
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Again... A number have been on since...
![Image](http://library.transgenderzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/nadia25.jpg)
![Image](http://library.transgenderzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/nadia23.jpg)
See
http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=2459
We have a Giant Media Archive that can dispel many of these 'Firsts' myths. In the same was Abi Austen (was a Captain in the Para) transitioned but just because she left the army, she retained her 'Cpt' and went on to serve with the US military... Years later Hanna Winterbourne swanns along and eveybody is gushing. Does this mean Abi was a Man in the army and a woman the monet she left? or was she a Woman pretending to be a man but a Captain in the Army? I think we know the truth, She was a serving trans Woman... I mean Trans* Men were Rife in Nelson's Navy and this is documented FACT! When they were discovered they were kicked out, but many were not until they retired!
This is all debatable, What I do not like is the dismissiveness of this "I AM THE FIRST" and medi's desperation to belive the individual, cos they are too lazy to ask anyone who can set them straight - like us - that it crushes the historical contributions of those that went before, and for them it was FAR TOUGHER! Yet their names are most lost, were it not for our media archives, we would not even be able to say this right now.