US Post Office, censorship, sex and gender
Most countries use their postal systems to censor correspondence and publications. This is in addition to censorship though the court system. The usual excuse is that of security, but once...
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Virginia Prince (1912 - 2009): Part 1 - Youth and First marriage
See also: Did Virginia Prince have Harry Benjamin Syndrome?and The Myth That Transgender is a Princian Concept.Previously in April 2008, I wrote an account of Virginia Prince, who started life as...
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Virginia Prince: Bibliography.
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliography Part II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activist Part IV – Full-time Living Part V – Transgenderist dowager Jargon terms and general commentsAs I...
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Virginia Prince: Part II – Second Marriage
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second Marriage Part III – Femmiphilic activistPart IV – Full-time Living Part V – Transgenderist dowager Jargon terms and general comments...
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Virginia Prince: Part III – Femmiphilic activist
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activist Part IV – Full-time Living Part V – Transgenderist dowager Jargon terms and general...
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Virginia Prince: Part IV – Full-time Living
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activist Part IV – Full-time Living Part V – Transgenderist dowager Jargon terms and general commentsIn...
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Virginia Prince: part V - Transgenderist dowager
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activist Part IV – Full-time LivingPart V – Transgenderist dowager Jargon terms and general commentsIn 1985...
View ArticleVirginia Prince: Jargon terms and general comments
Part 1 – Youth and First marriageBibliographyPart II – Second MarriagePart III – Femmiphilic activist Part IV – Full-time LivingPart V – Transgenderist dowagerJargon terms and general comments Jargon...
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A Review of Darryl Hill's Trans Toronto: An Oral History
Darryl Hill did his BA and MA at the University of Saskatchewen, and his PhD at the University of Windsor. He was for a while in the Psychology Department at Concordia University, where he would have...
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For several years the most popular all-time post on this blog, according to the internal statistics from Google, was Amanda Lear. It has now become Diane Delia.When I write a multi-part series I...
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Jennifer North (1953 – 1989) pageant winner
Steven Renner from Texas moved to St Louis and became a transgender performer as Bobbie Holliday, and winner of many gay pageant titles.Bobbie was Miss Gay Missouri 1978 and Miss Gay Arkansas 1981, and...
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A review of Kris Kirk & Ed Heath - Men in Frocks, 1984
There are three books on trans people in the UK in the 1980s: this book, Richard Ekins' Male Femaling and Liz Hodgkinson's Body Shock. I have all three side by side on my shelf. Each book focuses on...
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Les Lee (1929 – 2010) performer.
Les Lee from Québec became a female impersonator at age 19, emigrated to Paris in 1954 and stayed there for the rest of his life.A glamorous performer Les Lee worked many years at Le Carrousel and...
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Harvey Goodwin (1912 – 1992) performer
Harvey Wilson Goodman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He suffered from tuberculosis from an early age. He was interested in theatre and his father made a makeshift stage for him out of canvas and...
View ArticleA rejoinder to Kay Brown’s “What is a Transsexual?”
Last week Kay Brown, the one-time author of Transsexual, Transgender, and Intersex History (which she later took down) and pioneer in liquid crystal displays who has become the major lay advocate of...
View ArticleRejoinder to Kay Brown 2: the gynephilics
Kay’s description of typical gynephilic transsexuals is:“The prototypical autogynephilic transsexual was accepted as a boy as a child. She was often a “loner”, finding her hobbies and reading to be...
View ArticleChristine White (1949 - ) construction boss, bank robber
Anatoli Misura was born in Belgium to Ukrainian refugees, who later ran a dairy farm in Mont St. Grégoire, Quebec. By age 18 Anatoli was reading about and identifying with transsexuals. He trained as a...
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Julian Schutting (1937 - ) academic, poet.
Jutta Schutting was born in Amstetten in Lower Austria. In despair at being female she attempted suicide at 16.She trained as a photographer and then read history and German at Vienna University. From...
View ArticleChristie Lee Littleton (1952–) beautician.
Lee Cavazos, Jr was born in San Antonio, Texas. As a child Lee was prescribed male hormones in an attempt to 'cure' gender dysphoria.From the age of 17 Lee was searching for a physician who would help...
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DB Karron (1956–) biomedical engineer, inmate
Daniel Karron from Long Beach, New York, studied at a number of New York universities and was awarded his degrees at New York University. His PhD in Biomedical Engineering was completed in 1992.Karron...
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