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Some Events of 2015: Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Military, Cops...

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics,...

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 7: Autogynephilia, Drag, Butch, Dress Reform,...

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts,...

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal Articles & Studies

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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Some Events of 2015: Part 10: Archives & History, Books

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.Part 2: Persons, ChangebacksPart 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans KidsPart 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities,...

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2015 and other things: comments

I didn't intend to have a section on Identical Twins (Part 6), one trans, one cis, but noticed that there were several in the news this year. Of course Mark and Clair Farley in the documentary Red...

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Three Centuries of Police raids

I think that this is a first attempt at compiling such a list. Four Us raids: Cooper's Doughnuts, Dewey's Lunch Counter, Compton's Cafeteria and Stonewall are frequently mentioned, but there were a...

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Joy Shaffer (195?–) doctor.

Shaffer did a BS in biology at the California Institute of Technology. She was a college room-mate of Kay Brown. In 1979 Joy had transgender surgery.In 1980 Mary Elizabeth Clark, Jude Patton, Joy...

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Sonia Burgess (1947 – 2010) lawyer

David Burgess was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire. His mother was a secondary-school headmistress, but he never knew his father. He went to boarding school in Skipton, and then to Cambridge...

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Tony Briffa (1971 - ) engineer, mayor, foster parent, activist

Briffa's parents were emigrants from Malta. When he was born, in Altona, Victoria, outside Melbourne, doctors were unsure of his sex, although the twin sister was definitely a girl. They recommended,...

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José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma (1885–1944) writer, politician.

Riva-Agüero, descended from the first Peruvian President José de la Riva Agüero y Sánchez-Boquete, was educated at the National University of San Marcos and the University of Lima. He became a...

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Modesto Mangas (1923 - 2000) the Spanish Madame Arthur

Modesto Mangas Mateos was born the youngest of three in Villavieja de Yeltes, Salamanca, Castile y León. When he was 12 the family moved to Madrid, where he worked in a café. The customers were unsure...

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Vicky West (1935 - 2005) artist.

Dirk Luykx was born in New Jersey, the youngest of four boys, and wanted to be a girl since childhood. He went to Cornell University to do Civil Engineering. In 1955 he interrupted his studies to serve...

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Felix Abraham (1901 - 1937) doctor

The son of a Dutch mother and a Frankfurt am Main doctor, Felix Abraham graduated as a doctor in Frankfurt in 1928. His thesis on the mortality statistics of the first year of life was...

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Capucine (193?–) performer

Original March 2007. Capucine was a performer at Le Carrousel and was frequently mentioned along with Coccinelle and Bambi.Capucine and CoccinelleApril Ashley comments: "Anyway, Capucine's heart was...

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Toni Fricke (189? - 193?) activist

Toni Fricke was living as female in Berlin in the 1920s, and she strongly desired to change her body. She wrote of the “persistent, nerve-murdering (nervenmordenden) psychological pressure” constantly...

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Chris Moore (191? - 1975?) sailor, performer

Chris, originally from California, was four and a half years in the US Army, and then was a merchant seaman. He lived a year in east Asia. He then settled in New York.In the mid 1960s, he took up...

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Peggy Wijnen (1945 – 1967) barmaid.

Jean-Marie Wijnen, Antwerp, was the only boy in a family of several girls. Wijnen always preferred to play with girls, and later quit technical school after being deemed too frail to work in a steel...

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