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The First Drafts of Trans Histories Part III: 1970 onwards
It is a cliché that journalism is the first draft of history, and so it is with trans history. The following are journalists who were in the right place at the right time and saw the potential...
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The First Drafts of Trans Histories Part II: 1950-1969
It is a cliché that journalism is the first draft of history, and so it is with trans history. The following are journalists who were in the right place at the right time and saw the potential...
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Toward a TS Dictionary - the letter Ii
BOLD=cross reference, see item when appropriate letter postedIatrogenic, IatropicA condition, resulting from medical examination or treatment, that would not otherwise exist. This is an...
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The First Drafts of Trans Histories Part I: 1900-1950
It is a cliché that journalism is the first draft of history, and so it is with trans history. The following are journalists who were in the right place at the right time and saw the potential...
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Akhter Hussain Balou. A study of sociology of trans-sexuals of Sindh. 2010. This book is not offered in Amazon, not even Amazon.IN, not in AbeBooks, not in Anna's Archive.From Imtiaz Ali's review,...
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Barbara de Lamere (1940 - ) proof-reader, magazine editor
Most of the trans women in New York in the 1970s who are written about did not get as far as completion surgery. One who did so was Barbara de Lamere who transitioned at work in the late 1970s, and had...
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The Autogynephilia Project
Thomas Hubbard (Wikipedia) was previously a classicist at the University of Texas-Austin who wrote/edited several important books on sex in ancient Greece and Rome, until some students took his...
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Shadows in the Irish Independent
This image accompanied an article on trans persons in the Irish Independent, 26 September 1987. Readers of this encyclopedia will of course recognise the anguish of being trapped in the wrong...
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The Global Christines: surgical transition in the 1950s
See also Timeline of transgender surgery to 1975.The term is Howard Chiang’s and refers to the sequence of publicised transgender surgeries in the first half of the 1950s when Christine Jorgensen...
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Towards a TS dictionary -- the letter Rr
BOLD=cross reference, see item when appropriate letter postedRadical Draga) The drag performers who emerged from the RadFems of London Gay Liberation Front, who combined gender-mix drag with...
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Xie Jian Shun 謝尖順 (1918 - ?) soldier
Xie Jianshun 謝尖順 was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong. The family lived out in the countryside. At the age of seven, he was sick, and a doctor visit was not feasible. It was later reported that his penis...
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Nagai Akiko (永井明子) (1918 or 1924 - ? ) cabaret singer
In the early 1950s, the most attention went to Christine Jorgensen as being the first operated-on transsexual. However there were others around the world who were in the news before the Jorgenson...
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Frances Marie Jefferson (1929- ?) truck driver, domestic
Jefferson was born in the village of Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, seventh in a family of 10 living children. The attending practitioner was undecided as to the child’s sex, and called in 12 other doctors...
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The Game of Typology
There are Typologies of this and that. In particular there are Typologies of being Trans. Four years ago, I listed a Miscellany of Typologies. The best known Typology of course is that proposed by...
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Towards a TS dictionary -- the letters Xx, Yy, Zz
BOLD=cross reference, see item when appropriate letter postedXAn indicator of gender inclusivity, e.g. Latinx, Mx, Womxn, etc. These terms are written but not always pronounceable. X is also the...
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Marta Olmos Romero (1931 -1972) Mexican pioneer
Olmos was from Veracruz, a middle child with five siblings. Feminine even as a child, Olmos played with dolls and did female chores, and had a first sexual encounter with a man at age 13. After a...
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Valérie Wilson (1953-2011) actrice, performer
Valérie Wilson was an early transitioner. By her late teens she was living as female and performing at L’Alcazar, a nightclub competing with Le Carrousel. From there she was recruited to act in the sex...
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Two books that never arrived
Over the years I noticed again and again comments in various places, and particularly on maewest.blogspot.com, by R Mark Desjardins (1963-2025) that had something interesting to say about Ms West. He...
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Towards a TS dictionary --- the letter Qq+
BOLD=cross reference, see item when appropriate letter postedQa'cikichecaQa'cikicheca (=similar to a man) are assigned-female shamans among the reindeer-herding Chukchi in the very far east of...
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Estelle Asmodelle (1964 - 2026) dancer, activist, model, physicist, artist,...
Original version. January 2009.Croot was raised in small towns in New South Wales, and at 16 was seriously ill with spinal meningitis, and spent a year in hospital.Croot transitioned to Estelle Maria...
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