Estelle Asmodelle
Australian model, activist, scientist
Estelle Asmodelle (22 April 1964 – 18 April 2026), formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, was an Australian polymath and transgender activist. Asmodelle also worked as a model, actress, belly dancer, musician, abstract artist, and physicist.
Asmodelle was the first Australian trans person to receive a passport with a revised gender marker. In 1986, she was referred to as "Australia’s First Sex-Change Pin-up Girl". On 13 October 1987, Asmodelle became the first legal transgender person in Australia to be recognised by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Department of New South Wales.
Early life
Estelle Asmodelle was the first-born child of Silvia and Barry Croot. Her father's side of the family was Latvian and her mother's side was English. Asmodelle has one sibling. Asmodelle grew up in Berrima, New South Wales. She attended St Paul's Primary School in Moss Vale and Chevalier College.
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