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It is a cliché that journalism is the first draft of history, and so it is with trans history. The following are journalists who were in the right place at the right time and saw the potential story Mowry Saben (1870-1950) Saben, privately educated and fluent in Latin, French and German, and an alumnus of Harvard, started writing articles and essays for various newspapers and magazines in the…
Akhter Hussain Balou. A study of sociology of trans-sexuals of Sindh. 2010. This book is not offered in Amazon, not even Amazon.IN, not in AbeBooks, not in Anna's Archive. From Imtiaz Ali 's review, the year of publication: Tracing history of trans-sexuals based on different published sources, Balouch said that one of the tragic aspects of conquering of the countries by kings was that “beautiful…
Most of the trans women in New York in the 1970s who are written about did not get as far as completion surgery. One who did so was Barbara de Lamere who transitioned at work in the late 1970s, and had surgery in 1982. She retained her job at Kaye Scholer law firm. She became active in The Gay Veterans Association and the Irish and Lesbian Gay Organization. Enid & Barbara She had been born as…
Thomas Hubbard ( Wikipedia ) was previously a classicist at the University of Texas-Austin who wrote/edited several important books on sex in ancient Greece and Rome, until some students took his discussions of ancient man-boy sexuality as a defence of modern pederasty and vandalised his house. This led to his retirement. He is now President and Executive Director of the William A Percy Foundation…
This image accompanied an article on trans persons in the Irish Independent , 26 September 1987. Readers of this encyclopedia will of course recognise the anguish of being trapped in the wrong gender. Anyway I put the picture into Google App to see if the picture had been used elsewhere. Google App totally failed to get it: - "This puzzle requires matching the visual elements of the long shadow in…
See also Timeline of transgender surgery to 1975 . The term is Howard Chiang ’s and refers to the sequence of publicised transgender surgeries in the first half of the 1950s when Christine Jorgensen became the most publicised, and some of the other pioneers, especially in Mexico and Taiwan, were referred to as ‘Christines’. The trans women in this period were usually regarded as the ‘first’.…
BOLD= cross reference, see item when appropriate letter posted Radical Drag a) The drag performers who emerged from the RadFems of London Gay Liberation Front, who combined gender-mix drag with radical left politics. Bloolips became the major performing troupe, taking inspiration from the New York troupe Hot Peaches , and Bette Borne the best known performer. b) More generally, drag that mixes…
Xie Jianshun 謝尖順 was born in Chaozhou , Guangdong. The family lived out in the countryside. At the age of seven, he was sick, and a doctor visit was not feasible. It was later reported that his penis was attached to a labium, and the mother simply tore them apart. In 1934 at age 16, Xie joined the National Revolutionary Army (NRA, 國民革命軍), the military arm of the Chinese Nationalist Party (…
In the early 1950s, the most attention went to Christine Jorgensen as being the first operated-on transsexual. However there were others around the world who were in the news before the Jorgenson story broke, and who even had surgery earlier than Jorgensen did. We know of Marta Olmos in Mexico, Marie Jefferson in Canada and Xie Jianshun in Taiwan (not to mention the sex-change surgeries in Berlin…
Jefferson was born in the village of Bridgetown , Nova Scotia, seventh in a family of 10 living children. The attending practitioner was undecided as to the child’s sex, and called in 12 other doctors for advice. They decided the child was a boy, and he was raised as such. In the poverty of the Great Depression, the child was admitted to Children’s Aid. With puberty, Jefferson was made to go to…
