Martine Rothblatt, a prolific innovator, musician, and one of the wealthiest transgender people in the world, was born in 1954 in Chicago and raised in a suburb of San Diego. Rothblatt went to college at UCLA where they earned an MBA and JD. After graduating from UCLA, Rothblatt met and married their second spouse, Bina. The couple cross-adopted each other's children, Eli and Sunnee, and eventually had two more children together, Jenesis and Gabriel. The family lived in Washington D.C., where Rothblatt worked for a law firm before enrolling in the University of Maryland’s graduate program in astronomy.
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