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Charing Cross Hospital Gender Identity Clinic. Part I: 1818-1982
The hospital was originally founded in 1818 with royal patronage as the Royal West London Infirmary, located behind Haymarket Theatre. Patient numbers forced a move to a site near the Charing Cross....
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Charing Cross Hospital GIC: Part II: 1983-Now
1983 Stephanie Anne Lloyd, marketing manager, was referred by a Manchester doctor to Russell Reid at Charing Cross GIC. Afterwards she would create Transformation retail shops for trans persons in...
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Charing Cross GIC – addendum
There has been an article “Fifty years on: The Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic and the funding of a category without parallel” published at Youth Trans Critical Professionals and again at Gender...
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Two New York plastic surgeons in the 1970s
Facial Feminization Surgery is sometimes said to have been developed by surgeon Douglas Ousterhout in 1982. Of course transsexuals had surgery to change their appearance before that date, although...
View ArticleA short history of male pregnancy
This is a convoluted tale consisting of three strands:1. Doctors attempting to establish whether a cis man or trans woman could get pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy. The theory for how to do this was...
View ArticleThe Rudy-Donald drag show.
I have featured this clip before, but it has a topical resonance again.
View ArticleTransgender Lexicons: Raven Usher
This is the first of a series on lexicons. Raven Usher. North American Lexicon of Transgender Terms. GLB Publishers 2006.Raven Usher (1982 – ) is a writer and transgender activist in Boise, Idaho. She...
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2 photographs from The Other Paris
The Other Paris by Luc Sante, 2015 is a recent book that tells many interesting anecdotes about Paris, but has very little to say about its trans traditions. Homosexuality is stuck in as the last...
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Nicky Kiranant (1983 - ) air hostess
Chaiya was the seventh child in an impoverished farming family in Lampang, Thailand. Chaiya was observed as effeminate and admired the local kathoeys but was warned that parents of kathoeys lose face....
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René Goupil (1903 – 1973) transformiste
René Goupil started out as a window-dresser, and then, from 1932, became a minor music-hall performer in Paris.Late in 1933, he became director of the cabaret Le Fiacre, rue Notre-Dame de Lorette,...
View ArticleAnother 4 trans persons with a more famous kin
See also 6 trans persons with a more famous kinMonica Jay was born in Berlin, but lived in London most of her life. She ran a Montessori nursery school. She and her husband had three children, but...
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Jill Monro (1951 – 1982) porn star
Terri, originally called Teddy, was a Brooklynite of Italian descent. Her father died when she was young, and her mother practically raised her as a girl. As a teenager, Terri had a rhinoplasty and her...
View ArticleTransgender lexicons: Chris Bartlett
Chris Bartlett. What does ‘queer’ mean anyway? The Quick and Dirty Guide to LGBTQIA+ Vocabulary. Create Space and Kindle, 2016.Chris Bartlett is a heterosexual cis man in Colorado with a degree in...
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Leah Cahan (Schaefer) (1920 – 2013) singer, psychologist
Leah Cahan was born in Milwaukee, and raised in Chicago. She was the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi who had escaped the pogroms in Lithuania.Intending to be a music teacher, she started singing at age...
View ArticleHarry Benjamin’s first 10 cases: a disambiguation
Connie Christine Wheeler & Leah Cahan Schaefer “Harry Benjamin's first ten cases (1938-1953): a clinical historical note”. Archives of Sexual Behavior 24:1 Feb 1995. Online at...
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Otto Spengler (1876? – 194?) businessperson.
(I wrote a less detailed version of this in April 2009. This revision incorporates details from sexologists Talmay, Henry and Benjamin.)Otto’s family were German. Otto was the 13th of 14 children. The...
View ArticleSenior's home for Waria in Jakarta.
Featured in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2016/nov/23/waria-old-age-home-trans-jakartans-mama-yuli-video.
View ArticleTransgender lexicons: Jack Molay
Transgender lexicons: Virginia PrinceRaven UsherChris BartlettJack Molay Jack Molay. A Creative Crossdreamer Vocabulary: Reflections on Transgender. Amazon Digital & Blurb, 2015.Jack Molay is from...
View ArticleBooks on gender variance in 2016
$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. Note, of course, the high correlation of high prices and being published by Routledge. I would like to mention Transgress Press which has a growing catalogue of...
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Dana Rivers (1955 - ) teacher.
David Warfield was raised in California. After school he joined the US Navy, where he did a lot of drugs and alcohol. He was a baseball coach and a white-water rafting instructer. David had three wives...
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