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William Seymour (184? - ?) cab driver
Seymour was raised with the name of Mary in Taunton, Somerset, with a father who was a land agent for the local nobleman. At age 14 Seymour was married to an army surgeon, by the name of Honeywell....
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Skippy LaRue (1921-2003) sex worker, performer
Skippy LaRue was born in Port Arthur, Texas. His father was a boilermaker and bootlegger; his mother ran a house of prostitution where they all lived. His mother beat him frequently.He was drinking...
View ArticleRT has to go to Arizona to find 3 regretting trans persons
RT (Russia Today) sometimes produces intriguing documentaries well worth thinking about. This is not one of their best. They interview three persons, raised as boys, who transitioned to female, and...
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Willi Pape/Voo Doo (1893 - 1967) performer
Willi Pape was raised in the Berlin suburb of Spandau. His father owned a wooden-shoe factory and his mother was a dressmaker. He had said from an early age that he did not want to be a boy, and took...
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The geography of Charlotte McLeod in New York, 1957
Charlotte McLeod:Part 1: Youth and CopenhagenPart II: fame and marriagePart III: The geography of Charlotte McLeod in New York, 19571. 45 East 68th Street. The home of Dorothy Kilgallen and Richard...
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Case of Sheffield and Horsham v. The United Kingdom, 1998
Rachel Horsham (1946 - )Horsham was raised in a small village in Surrey, with a father who had been born in India, and a mother from Ireland. Horsham knew from an early age that she was not really...
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Regina Adams (1952 - ) widow, performer
Prior to the June 2016 shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the deadliest attack on gay people was the 24 June 1973 arson attack at the Up Stairs Lounge, 141 Chartres Street in the...
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Dante Gill (1930 - 2003) sex entrepreneur, mobster
Lois Jean Gill was raised in Pittsburgh, and was first arrested at age 18. By the late 1950s Gill was an accomplished horse-rider, was working as a blacksmith. From 1963 Gill worked as a prostitute,...
View ArticleBooks on Gender Variance in 2018
The two biggest publishers on trans topics continue to be Routledge and Jessica Kingsley. Routledge books are almost invariably priced so high that you would not buy them, although your library may do...
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Valentina Sampaio (1996 - ) model
Sampaio, from Aquiraz in the province of Ceará, in the north-east of Brazil, was using the name Valentina by age 10. She was accepted as a girl by her parents, a fisherman and a schoolteacher, and by...
View ArticleRichard Green, John Randell and ....
See also John Randell (1918 – 1982) Psychiatrist.In Richard Green's new bookGay Rights, Trans Rights: A psychiatrist/lawyer's 50-year battle. 2018.we find on p 154: "Randell was a careful clinician...
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2018 Obituaries
Milton Edgerton 1921-2018. Surgeon, co-founder of GIC at Johns Hopkins. Died age 96.Peter Farrer (1926 – 2017) tax inspector, trans historian, Liverpool. Died age 90. Sue-Ellen Jacobs (1936-2017) co-ed...
View ArticleTwo early pioneers in Los Angeles
Annette Dolan Annette Dolan had been told by doctors that “there was no ‘help’ for me, and I accepted this [as] gospel”. After the news about Christine Jorgensen in 1953, she consulted with Harry...
View ArticleThe Worden and Marsh project, UCLA 1954
In 1954 Frederick G Worden, psychoanalyst, and James T Marsh, clinical psychologist, both at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, interviewed and tested five “physically normal men”...
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Beverly-Barbara (1943 - ) restaurant worker
Beverly-Barbara*, from the Los Angeles area, was definitely a transkid expressing girls’ interest and dressing as a girl from an early age. Her parents hoped that she would grow out of it. At age 15...
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Robert Gaffney (1872 - ?) janitor.
Gaffney was raised on a farm in a religious family, and was married at 17 to a boy of the same age. They rambled, hunted and fished together, which gave her experience of wearing trousers and other...
View ArticleWho was Dixie MacLane?
On page xxii of C Jacob Hale’s introduction to Richard Docter’s biography of Christine Jorgensen, we find: “During the 1950s, others who claimed to be seeking or to have obtained surgical alteration of...
View ArticleThe Harry Benjamin Foundation in the mid 1960s
In 1963 Benjamin was invited by Dr Robert Hotchkiss, the urologist, to read a paper at New York's Bellevue Hospital. He also read a paper at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (of which he was...
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Rachel Humphreys (1952 - ?199?) hairdresser, muse to Lou Reed
Humphreys was raised in Bridgeton, New Jersey and San Antonio, Texas. It was said that the family were of part Mexican Native descent. An apparent trans child who played with dolls, and wore girls’...
View ArticleMore non-fiction books by trans writers
Trans authors write about all kinds of things. I have already published such a list. https://zagria.blogspot.com/p/trans-authors-write-about-all-kinds-of.htmlHere are some that I missed...
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