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Books on Gender Variance in 2020
$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. $£¥ € Natalie Boero & Katherine Mason. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment. Oxford University Press, 2020.$£¥ € Stevie N Berberick....
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2020 Obituaries, trans & others
Ricky Renee (1929 – 2017) Jewel Box Revue performer from Indiana, moved to London and then Germany, voted one of Top Ten Artists, cameo in Cabaret, 1972. DE.WIKIPEDIAGloria Greaves (1932 – 2015)...
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When I go to Amazon.books and type in 'transgender' the top item shown is this year's most hyped transphobic screed: A Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our...
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James How (1714–1780) publican
In December 1732 Mr James How took unto marriage one Mary Snapes. Together they had a small nest-egg of £30 (£6,000 in today’s money). They found a small pub in Epping, northwest of London, which was...
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Edward Wilson (?1672 – 1694) kept man
Edward Wilson from Leicestershire served under his uncle in Flanders during the Nine-years war against France, 1688-97. However he was dismissed and sent home to London with 10 guineas (about £2,300 in...
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Cross-dressing during the Reign of Charles Stuart (reigned 1625-1649) and the...
James Stuart, king of Scotland 1567-1625, and of England 1603-25, is taken by many historians to be gay because of his interest in young men. Certainly his reign was one with very few prosecutions for...
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Pyander, a transvesting ingle in 1599
Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton.“Satire 5 - Ingling Pyander” in MicroCynicon: Six Snarling Satires. 1599.A work of poetic satire by the English playwright who was then 18. Later he wrote plays and...
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Trans Scotland - a Timeline: Part I to to the Wolfenden Report
Part I: to to the Wolfenden ReportPart II: to the Gender Recognition Act Part III: after the GRA518The prince of Rheged/Strathclyde, Owain Mab Urien, was to make a dynastic marriage with Teneu of...
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Trans Scotland - a Timeline: Part II - to the Gender Recognition Act
Part I: to to the Wolfenden ReportPart II: to the Gender Recognition Act Part III: after the GRA1965-7Ewan Forbes (pdf)was to assume the Baronetcy after the death of his elder brother. His cousin, John...
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Trans Scotland - a Timeline: Part III - after the GRA
Part I: to to the Wolfenden ReportPart II: to the Gender Recognition Act Part III: after the GRA2005The wife of Edinburgh resident Jo Clifford died. Despite being grief-stricken, Clifford was now able...
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Diana Thomas (1959 - ) journalist, editor, novelist
David Thomas Senior, UK diplomat, was posted in Moscow when his son was born. The boy partly grew up in Havana and Washington, DC on later postings, and then had an elite education at Eton (paid for...
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Some forgotten European gender impersonators 1890-1925
Stiv-Hall Bloch (187? - )Stiv-Hall and four sisters, of whom the most famous was Jeanne Bloch, were collectively known as the troupe de la Scala. Only Stiv-Hall did gender impersonations in addition to...
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Heming, despite early feelings that she should be female, worked as a sailor, was tattooed and married in the 1940s, and had children. After an auto-orchiectomy Anna Heming had completion surgery in...
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Barbara de Lamere previously known as Bunny Eisenhower
Several trans histories tell us that Bunny Eisenhower and Lee Brewster founded the Queens' Liberation Front in 1970, and that they worked with Sylvia Rivera. We know quite a lot about Lee Brewster, but...
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Holden Madagame (1990 - ) opera tenor
Madgame was raised in Michigan, trained as a mezzo soprano at the Michigan School of Music, and then moved to Berlin as a third of the world’s opera is in Germany. By 2013 Madgama knew that he had to...
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Mariela Elcira Muñoz (1943 - 2017) tarot reader, mother of 23
The Muñoz family came from Lules in the northern Argentinian province of Tucumán, but moved to Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires where the father was able to get construction work.By age 13 Muñoz declared...
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Calenna Garbä (1972 - ) musician
Raised in Buenos Aires, Garbä had started a business career, and also had some musical training. At the age of 30, she moved to the seaside town of Mar de Plata, transitioned and became a mainly...
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Dorothy Medway (192? - ? ) magician and lorry driver
++Initial version August 2012. Francis was raised in Liverpool, and after leaving school tried to lead a ‘normal life’, by training as a motor mechanic. She also started a stage career as La Bettina,...
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