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Paul B Preciado (1970 - ) philosopher
Preciado, born in Burgos in northen Spain was raised and educated as Beatriz, and having earned a Fulbright Fellowship, at the age of 28 and generally taken to be a queer lesbian, took Philosophy and...
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Bathyllus, female impersonator in Augustan Rome
Bathyllus was born in Alexandria in the mid of the last century BCE and maybe was originally called Gaius Theoros. He was a slave in the house of Maecenas, but later was given his freedom. He, along...
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Charlotte Charlaque (1892 - ?) actress, translator, Hirschfeld patient
Charlaque was born in Berlin-Schöneberg and raised with the name Curt Scharlach. There was a brother Hans, seven years older. The family, who were Jewish, emigrated to the US at the turn of the century...
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Magnus Hirschfeld in Paris, July 1933
An article on the front page of La Volanté, 20 Juillet 1933.TranslationAnti-Semitism Against Science.Professor Magnus Hirschfeld whose work on sexuality is famous, is in exile in...
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L'homme protée
L'homme protée (French for protean man) was a term used for stage female impersonators cum quick-change artists from the turn of the 20th century to the mid 1920s,Some examples:Louis Vernassier, 1906....
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Jack McConnell (1900 - ?) crane operator, driver, pugilist
In January 1922, in Philadelphia, a young man, Jack McConnell, was arrested after a fracas with his girlfriend. McConnell was a remarkable 22-year-old. His grandfather was James Gray, a retired member...
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Mary Jane Furneaux (1840 - ?) fraudster
Arthur Pelham-Clinton (1840-1870) served in the Royal Navy during the Anglo-French attack on the Russian naval base of Kronstad in 1854 (part of the 1853-6 Crimean War), and then during the Indian...
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and cis gender play
The fictions of Ernest Hemingway had from way back induced skepticism re his machismo and bravado. This took a more interesting turn in the late 1980s with the posthumous publication of his Garden of...
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Gerda von Zobeltitz (1891 – 1963) tailor
Original version November 2014. Revised March 2022.G. von Zobeltitz from Weißensee, Berlin, a scion of one of Germany's old noble families with ties to the Hohenzollern court, was making a living in...
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Karl M. Baer (1885 – 1956) journalist, accountant, manager, Hirschfeld patient
Baer was born in Arolson, Hesse, Germany, to a Jewish family, and was assigned female and raised with the name Martha. After a childhood of not fitting in with other girls and preferring to play with...
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Victoria Dolling (192? - ?) meat porter, British Railways clerk
Victor Dolling, who worked at Smithfield meat market as a porter, and Constance, both of Walworth, London, were married in 1950, and they had a child a year later. Shortly afterwards, Victor...
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Sex Change in 1958 England (part 1)
There were more stories of trans persons in the press in 1958 than one might suppose. The word 'transsexual' was not yet in use, and they were generally referred to as 'sex changes'.Roberta Betty...
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Sex Change in 1958 England (part 2)
Continued from Part 1Now some lessor known trans persons.Nural HudaOn the 16 May, The Civil & Military Gazette reported that Nurjahan Bibi of a small village in Bihar, north of Calcutta, a...
View ArticleElsa B (1888? - ?) government clerk, Gutheil patient
Emil Gutheil (1889-1959) was born in Czerlany close to Lviv, which was originally in Poland, but then part of Austria-Hungary and now is in the Ukraine. He was educated at the University of Vienna. He...
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Charlotte d'Eon de Beaumont (1728 - 1810) part I: Le Secret du Roi - Russia...
Part I: Le Secret du Roi - Russia and then England. Part II: Return to France, Return to EnglandPart III: Addendum - Legacy, Untruths, Comments, What modern label would fit?, BibliographyTo write about...
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Mademoiselle Chevalière Charlotte d'Eon de Beaumont - Part II: Return to...
Part I: Le Secret du Roi - Russia and then England. Part II: Return to France, Return to EnglandPart III: Addendum A - Legacy, BibliographyPart III: Addendum B - Untruths, Comments, What modern label...
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Charlotte d'Eon: Addendum A - Legacy, Bibliography
Part I: Le Secret du Roi - Russia and then England. Part II: Return to France, Return to EnglandPart III: Addendum A - Legacy, BibliographyPart III: Addendum B - Untruths, Comments, What modern label...
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Charlotte d'Eon - Addendum B - Untruths, Comments, What modern label would fit?
Part I: Le Secret du Roi - Russia and then England. Part II: Return to France, Return to EnglandPart III: Addendum A - Legacy, BibliographyPart III: Addendum B - Untruths, Comments, What modern label...
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Pozzale prison
30 km southwest of Florence is the comune of Empoli, and in Pozzale, a frazione thereof (a suddivision of a comune introduced in the Fascist period), there is a medium-security prison, which until 2010...
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Pre-Stonewall Trans peer-support groups
Outside of Europe and the Americas peer-supporting trans groups have thrived for millennia, the Hijra in India and the Kathaoy in Thailand being the best known. Many of the First Nations across the...
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