Coagula (real name Kate Gowin, birth name Clark Godwin) is a fictional character and former member of DC Comic's Doom Patrol. Kate is a male-to-female transsexual, one of the first transsexual characters in comics, and remains one of the only transsexual superheroines. The character was created by transexual science fiction writer Rachel Pollack. Pollack named Kate Godwin after Chelsea Godwin and transsexual writer/activist Kate Bornstein. Both trans-women are good friends of Pollack.