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Ava Betty Brown was a black American transgender woman known for a court case in Chicago in which she was charged and found guilty of "female impersonation."

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Brown was arrested on the West Side of Chicago on March 14, 1957 for wearing women's clothing. She appeared in court in April of the same year, where she testified that she was "double-sexed" and told the court that she planned to visit Denmark to have a gender-affirming operation. Brown also asserted that all of her friends and business acquaintances knew her as Ava Betty Brown. She is quoted in the Chicago Daily Defender saying, "Everything I own is in the name of Betty Brown... If I am a man, I don't know it."