A rereading of Benjamin: Part 2: transvestites
Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a bibliography and appendix by Richard Green. PDF (with different pagination). Page references eg...
View ArticleClara Miller (1899 - ?) fur merchant, office worker
Ralph was born in London, the 11th of 13 children to Jewish parents, The father was a fur merchant of varying success, and also a Yiddish language novelist and playwright, although without any...
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A rereading of Benjamin: Part 3: trans women
Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a bibliography and appendix by Richard Green. PDF (with different pagination). Page references eg...
View ArticleJoe (1920 - ?) cattle breader, art dealer
Jo was one of four daughters raised in New England. Father, a salesman was frequently away. Jo dressed as a boy except for school, preferred boys toys and activities, and was interested in animals,...
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A rereading of Benjamin: Part 4: photos, legal, trans men, conclusion
Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a bibliography and appendix by Richard Green. PDF (with different pagination). Page references eg...
View ArticleBenjamin’s TS Phenomenon – comments
Harry Benjamin's book is now 50 years old.Harry Benjamin. The Transsexual Phenomenon. Julian Press, 1966. Warner Books Edition 1977, with a bibliography and appendix by Richard Green. PDF (with...
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Ontario drivers' licences and gender neutrality
It was announced this last week that Ontarians will have a choice of gender neutrality on a driving licence; that X may be chosen instead of F or M for sex.Here is a sample report.The problem is that...
View ArticleTwo California pioneers
Carla Sawyer (192? - ?) In 1949, Carla was arrested in Los Angeles under the 1922 municipal anti-masquerading law. This was a year before two lesbians, in separate cases, challenged the Los Angeles...
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6 Trans persons with a more famous kin.
Shaun Woodward, who had married an heiress to the Sainsbury Supermarket fortune, was a front-bench Conservative MP in 1999, when he refused to agree with the Conservative Opposition’s continuing...
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Terri Williams Moore (1941 – 1976) dancer, wife, murdered
Frank Felice, from Detroit, moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1972, where she became Terri Williams. She first came to police attention when a murder investigation led to a gay bar and she was able to be a...
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AnnouncementAt the end of each year from 2008 to 2015 I did a year-end review of trans persons and events around the world. Each year it became bigger, and it has really become too big a task for one...
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Ira B Pauly (1930–) psychiatrist, sex-change doctor
(All quotations from Anderson 2015, unless otherwise specified). Ira’s father was a successful bookmaker who raised his three sons and a daughter in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Ira was the youngest,...
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Kay Kwarta (1928 – 1999) engineer, salesman, monkey keeper
Casimir Kwarta, a first-generation Polish-American, trained as an engineer. In 1960 he met Ursula, a recent immigrant from Poland, although by origin a Berliner whose first husband had been the Polish...
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Parinya Charoenphon ปริญญา เจริญผล (1981–) boxer, actress, singer.
Parinya Charoenphol was born into a family of nomads who settled in Chang Mai province, Thailand. When he was eight, his parents worked looking after an orchard, not knowing that the owners were...
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Alice Lyman Miller (1944 - ) intelligence analyst, academic
Harold Lyman Miller grew up in rural western New York state, where as a young teenager he would take a dress when fossil hunting in the wild.Then he put away childish things and set out to prove his...
View Articleas if the last several decades had never happened
In May 2011, I wrote about Albert Cashier, a trans man combatant in the US Civil War. That war has become noted for the large number of born-female persons who served as men on both sides. The same...
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Audrey Tang 唐鳳 (1981 - ) Perl programmer.
++ original October 2010; revised August 2016.Táng Zōnghàn 唐宗漢, who later took the English name Autrijus Tang, was born in Taiwan, learnt the Perl programming language at 12, dropped out of school at...
View ArticleNochmen Tenenbaum (1911–?) army sergeant
Nochmen Tenenbaum served with distinction in the Polish Army in the early 1930s. He earned medals after saving several persons from drowning, and was promoted to sergeant.A year later in 1936, after...
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