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Einar Wegener, artist
Part I: Einar Wegener, artist Part II: Lili Ilse Elvenes, surgery and womanhoodPart III: Lili Elbe, media constructBibliography (all page references are to the Blue Boat edition of Man Into Woman,...
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Lili Ilse Elvenes, surgery and womanhood
Part I: Einar Wegener, artistPart II: Lili Ilse Elvenes, surgery and womanhoodBibliographyPart III: Lili Elbe, media constructIn Spring 1930 Einar was depressed in that Lili seemed to be taking over....
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Lili Elbe. Part IV: bibliography
Part I: Einar Wegener, artist Part II: Lili Ilse Elvenes, surgery and womanhoodBibliography Part III: Lili Elbe, media constructFigure 10 in Ein mensch wechselt sein geschlechtVigge Afrelius. "Ved en...
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Lili Elbe, media construct
Part I: Einar Wegener, artist Part II: Lili Ilse Elvenes, surgery and womanhoodBibliographyPart III: Lili Elbe, media constructThe young writer Aldous Huxley published Limbo, a collection of short...
View ArticleRachel Harlow (1948–) pageant winner, model, nightclub hostess, restaurateur
See also: Flawless Sabrina, Rachel Harlow and 'The Queen'Richard Finocchio was raised in South Philadelphia, and bullied at school for being too pretty. A friend of the family was a gay man who...
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Carla LaGata (196? - ) anthropologist, activist
Carsten Balzer, whose female persona is Carla Lagata, has been active in social movements since the mid-1980s, holds a MA and PhD from the Free University of Berlin, has done fieldwork in Tanzania, the...
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Mimi Juareza (1975 - ) actress, performer.
After her father's death in the 1990s, Filipino Juarez was the family breadwinner and did drag shows in Japan, and started taking female hormones. She continued performing on returning to Manila.Mimi...
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Felicia Garza (1941 - ) musician
Felipe Gil was born in San Antonio, Texas. He moved to Mexico and pioneered rock music in Spanish under the name Fabricio. He was in the film Buenos días, Acapulco, 1964, playing himself. After a few...
View ArticleRichard Mühsam (1872 – 1938) surgeon - and probably the first surgical sex...
Mühsam was a physician-surgeon who qualified at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1893. He married in 1896, and they had two sons and a daughter.Between 1912 and the mid 1920s Mühsam was...
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Josefine Meißauer (188? - ?)
Josefine Meißauer was arrested more than once in Bavaria for being in female clothing. When Magnus Hirschfelt's book Die Transvestiten came out in 1910, she contacted him, and with a recommendation...
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Jenny O. (1862 - ?) embroiderer, book seller.
O was born in Vorarlberg, Austria. O's father, a gamekeeper and horn player, died when O was 5, of consumption, and his mother 1½ years later. O was still wearing a dress after his brother, two years...
View ArticleFrench and Belgian (auto)biographies and Histories
See also 27 trans persons in France/French Belgium/French Africa who changed things by example and/or achievement.See also:Canadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost...
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Ophelia De’Lonta (1963 - ) inmate
Michael Stokes of Virginia had a feeling from an early age of being in the wrong body, resulting in a first self-cutting at 12, and bank robberies at 17 hoping to get enough money to pay for a sex...
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Gay Berlin – a review
Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf, 2014As Wayne Dynes says in his Amazon review, there is little that is new in this book compared to the books on the topic published...
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Ralf Dose's biography of Magnus Hirschfeld – some observations.
Ralf Dose. Magnus Hirschfeld: Deutscher, Jude, Weltbürger. Teetz: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2005. English translation by Edward H. Willis. Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation...
View ArticlePatrick Clarkson (1911 – 1969) surgeon
Clarkson was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of a sheep farmer and meat exporter. He was educated at Christ's College and then emigrated to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He...
View ArticleGrant Williams (194? - ) urologist
Grant Williams, urologist, was, early in his career, from 1968 to 1988, Consultant Urological & Transplant Surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital (Fulham). He was not an advocate of the transgender...
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Georgina Somerset (1923 - 2013) Part I: dentist and surgeon-lieutenant.
(Original May 2008; expanded February 2015 – all pages references to A Girl Called Georgina unless otherwise noted)Part I: dentist and sailorPart II: wife and authorPart III: Turtle’s typologyGeorge...
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Georgina Somerset (1923–2013) Part II: wife and author.
Part I: dentist and surgeon-lieutenantPart II: wife and author Part III: Turtle’s typology Several of the medical men in London had suggested to Georgina that she write her autobiography, but what she...
View ArticleGeorgina Turtle's typology of transvestists and transsexualists
Part I: dentist and surgeon-lieutenantPart II: wife and author Part III: Turtle’s typology In Chapter 5 "Basic Types of Cases" in Over the Sex Border, the following typology is proposed. Remember that...
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