Non-Fiction Books on other topics by trans authors
BibliographiesCanadian (auto)biographiesHoax biographies(auto)biographies that are almost unobtainableFrench and Belgian (auto) biographies and HistoriesBiographies with the pre-transition name in the...
View Article‘Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?’ - the controversial documentary
This is the controversial documentary that was broadcast by the BBC last January, and was supposed to go out on CBC this week, but was withdrawn at the last moment. There is a lot of Canadian...
View ArticleBooks on Gender Variance in 2017
In compiling this list I kept noticing Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Thus they are printing quite a few trans titles, although more advice books than history or politics. Their web page list categories:...
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2017 Obituaries
Tony Sinclair (192? – 2017) Performer in Oklahoma City.Diamond Lil (1935 – 2016) Atlanta performer. Aleshia Brevard (1937 – 2017) performer, Hollywood actress, theatre director. Andrea Susan Malick...
View ArticleTrans in sports 2017
Aaron Stewart , 33, US soldier injured in Kuwait in 2015, who won eight medals including two golds Invictus as a woman at previous Invictus Games, competed at this year’s Invictus Games, Toronto as a...
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Donna Perry (1952 - ) convicted of murder
From 1975 to 1998 at least 26 prostitutes in Spokane, Washington State – population 200,000 - were murdered by shooting, apparently by a trick who had sex with them first. Their bodies were dumped in...
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Paula Williams (1951 - ) evangelical preacher
Despite feeling from childhood that he was really a girl, Paul Williams followed his father and became an evangelical preacher. He married a minister’s daughter and they had three children. He has a...
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Karla Avelar (1978 - ) activist
Avelar was born in Chalatenango Department, in the north of El Salvador, just before the Civil War,. From an early age, despite being dressed as a boy, she came across as a girl, and most in the...
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Dana J Bevan (194?- ) bio-psychologist. Part I: life.
Thomas Bevan’s father was a wildlife manager, and his mother a school teacher. Thomas was an only child, and was soon trying on his mother’s clothing. He tried to tell his parents that he was not...
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Dana Bevan. Part II: theory
Part I: LifePart II: TheoryPart III: 7 factors that are not causesBevan, trained in experimental and physiological psychology, has--sometimes as Thomas, sometimes as Dana--presented her findings on...
View ArticleDana Bevan. Part III: 7 factors that are not causes
Part I: LifePart II: TheoryPart III: 7 factors that are not causes As in part II, we are referring to Dana Bevan's works using the numbers 1-5 for reference with a page number when applicable. 1) The...
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Michelle Suárez Bértora (1984–) lawyer, senator.
Michelle was born in Salinas in the Canelones Department of Uruguay. She transitioned at age 15 with the support of her mother. Accepted at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, she was the...
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Eve Golden (1957–) film biographer
Golden was born near Philadelphia, the child of an electronics engineer and a high-school guidance secretary. The family was gay-friendly, and one grandmother was openly lesbian. Family funding paid...
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Juno Dawson (1985–) school teacher, young adult author
James Dawson, from Leeds, Yorkshire, went to the University of Bangor (previously the University College of North Wales), moved to Brighton, Sussex, and became a school teacher of personal, social,...
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Jonathan Ferguson (1915 - 1974) pilot, engineer, civil servant
Joy Ferguson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, and attended Lurgan College, a Christian instition which had admitted girls since 1918. In 1939 while working as an electrical appliances demonstrator in...
View ArticleGerd Winkelmann (1906–?) postal worker
Gerd Winkelmann was working for the post-office in Berlin in 1933 when he first obtained a Transvestitenschein (permit to cross-dress). Two years later, after the Nazi takeover, he applied for an...
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Lotte Hahm (1890 - 1967) activist, bar owner, ball organizer
Charlotte Hahm was born in Dresden. As Lotte – sometimes as Lothar - Hahm was a transvestite and lesbian activist in 1920s Berlin. From 1926 she ran the DamenKlub Violetta which had 400 members. She...
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How did pink become a girly colour?
Things not mentioned in the video below:In Dutch pinck means little (cf pinkie finger). A variety of the flower genus Dianthus was called pinck-ooghen (little flower). This was taken into English...
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Ayta Sözeri (1976 - ) actress.
Sözeri was born in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1982 the family moved back to İzmir (Smyrna). Ayta had confirmation surgery in her early 20s. She did a business degree at Ege University and then studied...
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Daniela Vega Hernández (1989–) singer, actress
Vega was born in Santiago, Chile, with a father who owned a printing business. At age 8, teachers discovered that Vega had an aptitude for opera singing, which led to singing and acting in local...
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