The first known British trans women up to 1964
The corresponding list of British trans men would of course be a lot longer and go back to the 17th century if not earlier. It was of course a lot more difficult for trans women to pass until external...
View ArticleThe first US Trans Women up to 1966
1966, the date of Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon, and the start of surgeries at John Hopkins and other university clinics is of course the obvious cut-off point.As in the British list, the...
View ArticleTamara Rees (1924-2000) Part I: Parachutist, soldier, pilot
Part I: Parachutist, soldier, pilotPart II: performer, wife, property investorOriginal version: February 2010Robert Rees was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Montgomery, Alabama and then Los Angeles....
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Tamara Rees (Stevenson) performer, wife, property investor
Part I: Parachutist, soldier, pilotPart II: performer, wife, property investorRees then wandered from job to job, city to city. By 1951 she was in Los Angeles and had consulted a few psychiatrists...
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A review of Goiar's The Original Harry Benjamin Syndrome Book
See also:Charlotte Goiar (1972 - ) HBS activist.A short history of (Harry) Benjamin Syndrome.Rose White’s Harry Benjamin Syndrome Review – a review.Charlotte Goiar. The Original Harry Benjamin Syndrome...
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Bobbie Spong (191? - 1944) performer, WWII Prisoner of War
Spong was the son of the licencee of the Six Bells, Kings Road, Chelsea. On 7-8th December 1941 he was a private in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps stationed in Singapore. On that day Japanese forces...
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The Hamilton Lodge Ball
Harlem’s Hamilton Lodge, also known as Rockland Palace, was founded by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge 710, on 155th street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. It was initially a home for...
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The Black Cap, Camden
A pub in Camden Town, London, at 171 Camden High Street. It was first licensed in 1751 and was originally called the Mother Black Cap, after a local supposed witch, one Jinny Bingham (c.1600-...
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Trans Magyar/Hungary - a timeline - Part I: to WWII
Note: Hungarians put the family name first, as do Basques, Chinese etc. In the account below name of Hungarians living in Hungary are written family name first. However as Hungarians living...
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Trans Magyar/Hungary - a timeline - Part II: WWII to now
Continued from Part I. 1946The Second Hungarian Republic (Magyar Köztársaság) was created following the formal abolition of the Hungarian monarchy in February.István Faludi emigrated via Denmark to...
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Lauraine Lee (1942 - ) & Lennette Lee (1947 - ) Minnesota pioneers
Lauraine and Lennette, siblings from a small town in Minnesota, after years of frustration and torment at having to pretend to be men, were saving in the hope of going to Dr Burou in Casablanca, when...
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Tammy Beadle (195? - ) CD-ROM engineer
Tammy was born with ambiguous genitals, and her parents went with female. This went well until Tammy’s puberty when as Youngson & Schott put it, her “ equipment soon grew to respectable...
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A Miscellany of Typologies
Of the making of typologies there is no end.To some extent they are needed in that trans persons are and can be very different. Those who attempt to abolish our variation by banning the obvious words...
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Paul Walker (1946 – 1991) psychologist - Part I: Baltimore and Galveston
(Original version April 2012.)Walker was raised in Baltimore, did research in behavioural endocrinology with John Money at Johns Hopkins Psychohormonal Research Instititute from 1966, and graduated...
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Paul Walker psychologist - Part II: San Francisco
Continued from Part I.In 1980 Paul Walker resigned from the UTMB and moved to San Francisco. He lived on Castro Street, and had an office at 1952 Union Street. He was now openly gay, and specialized in...
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Did Magnus Hirschfeld coin the term Geschlechtsverkleidung?
Magnus Hirschfeld used two words somewhat interchangeably: Geschlechtsverkleidung and Transvestiten. The former is a pure German word while Transvestismus is a Latin-based loan word from French and...
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Two false positives in 1960s-70s New York
Some trans women are indeed into performativity, to exaggerated femininity and attention seeking. Such persons are often referred to as Drag Queens even though they do not perform on a stage or...
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates
1720 was the year of a major crime, the first international stock bubble and crash that was the South Sea Bubble in England, The Mississippi Bubble in France and the Windhendel in the United Provinces...
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Trans London in the 1970s - Part 1: 1971-5
See also:The Triple-Whammy 1928-9 Trans London in the 1960sPart 1: 1971-5Part II: 1976-80Ruminations19712 February: Justice Roger Ormrod finally read his judgment on Corbett vs Corbett. Arthur...
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Trans London in the 1970s - Part II: 1976-80
See also:The Triple-Whammy 1928-9 Trans London in the 1960sPart 1: 1971-5Part II: 1976-80Ruminations 1976April Ashley retreated to the book-shop town of Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh border. She...
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