# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lili-elbe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:02:51.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lili-elbe"
name: "Lili Elbe"
slug: "lili-elbe"
description: "A Danish painter who, in 1930, became one of the first people to undergo gender-affirming surgery—and later the first known recipient of a uterus transplant, which cost her her life."
tagline: "Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lili_Elbe_1926.jpg"
gender: "trans woman"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1882-12-28"
deathDate: "1931-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Lili Ilse Elvenes in December 1882, she worked as a painter before transitioning in 1930, when she changed her legal name and stopped painting. She went on to receive a uterus transplant in an attempt to become pregnant—a frontier procedure that led to fatal complications. She died in September 1931 at forty-eight. Her semi-autobiographical narrative, Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex, was published posthumously in 1933. Decades later, a film inspired by her life, The Danish Girl, appeared in 2015, followed by an opera in 2023.