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In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first female gondolier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10976450|title=First lady joins official ranks of Venice's gondoliers|work=BBC News}}</ref>
[[Alex Hai]] (born 1967 in [[Hamburg]])<ref name="FT.com">{{cite web |last=Cole |first=Teresa Levonian |url=https://www.ft.com/content/62396240-8eb0-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b?mhq5j=e1|title=Subscribe to read |work=Financial Times |accessdate=June 17, 2017}}</ref> is a transgender man of German and Algerian descent who is regarded as the first assigned-female-at-birth and first openly transgender person to be a gondolier in Venice.<ref>{{cite news|title=Il caso di Alexandra Hai Prima donna pope, dopo otto anni il Consiglio di Stato conferma l'ok|newspaper=Corriere del Veneto|date=December 29, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.west-info.eu/dont-call-me-alexandra-word-of-the-first-transgender-gondolier/ |title=Don’t call me Alexandra, word of the first transgender gondolier - WEST |publisher=West-info.eu |date=2007-10-19 |accessdate=2017-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Tom Kington |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alexandra-hai-venice-s-first-female-gondolier-to-have-a-sex-change-qhz7k9tqb |title=Venice’s first female gondolier, to have a sex change | World | The Times & The Sunday Times |publisher=Thetimes.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-06-23}}</ref><ref name="Kiefer">{{cite news|last=Kiefer|first=Peter|title=Along the Canals, a Woman Paddles Against the Tide|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 14, 2007}}</ref> He came out as transgender in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.west-info.eu/dont-call-me-alexandra-word-of-the-first-transgender-gondolier/ |title=Don’t call me Alexandra, word of the first transgender gondolier - WEST |publisher=West-info.eu |date=2007-10-19 |accessdate=2017-06-23}}</ref>
== References in literature and history ==
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