# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberta-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:31:01.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberta-perkins"
name: "Roberta Perkins"
slug: "roberta-perkins"
description: "Roberta Perkins was an Australian sociologist, writer, and transgender rights and sex worker rights activist. She wrote several books and multiple academic articles on the semi-nomadic lives of transgender sex workers, and established the first assistance center for transgender people in Australia."
tagline: "Australian sociologist and trans rights activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Roberta_Perkins.jpg"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-04-30"
deathDate: "2018-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.34
  momentum:             0.1162790697674419
  historical:           5.672930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Perkins"
    title: "Roberta Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Perkins"
    title: "Roberta Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Perkins"
    title: "Roberta Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Perkins"
    title: "Roberta Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "רוברטה פרקינס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC"
    title: "ਰੋਬੇਰਟਾ ਪਰਕਿਨਜ਼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56605720"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump