Mark Lange

Mark Lange was the original name of a visitor to the Inn in 2006 who was transformed into a woman named Ginessa Lopez. Lange described himself as "your typical ex jock approaching middle age." He was an All American in college and was a 2nd round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1995. However, his professional football career lasted 2 weeks due to injuries, specifically in his knee ligaments. He hinted at having recently ended a relationship.

After unpacking his clothes, Mark noticed that there was enough luggage for four people, which he found odd. On the evening of August 30th, a woman named Vinessa appeared looking for someone named "Gem," recognizing the clothes as being hers. Mark offered Vinessa the extra bed in his room. That night, they transformed, with Mark becoming Ginessa, a Peruvian-born woman living in New York City.

As Ginessa, Mark worked as an actress; after an unsuccessful audition for a play, she married the producer, Gavin, in order to avoid being deported as Ginessa and sent to Peru. She later described this decision as difficult to make - that other options for citizenship were on the table but there was "something appealing" about the stability offered by married life. In summer 2007, she was visited by Louisa and Jessica. She struck up a friendship with Darren Bridger, who arrived in New York City that summer as food critic Jamie Connor.

She was visited in March 2009 by Todd Casey, while he visited New York City with the family of Anne-Marie Adkisson. By this time, she said of "Jamie" that the latter still resented her position, viewing the life of a female as inherently "less" than a male one, and feeling judged by her friend for never having attempted to return. She noted to Todd that a key difference in their situation was that Todd had to bear a lot of burdens because he intended to go back, but that for all intents and purposes Ginessa was now living her own life and owed it to herself to live it as best she could. Todd observed that it "kinda looks like [Ginessa was] rocking this."