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author of the Gender Variance Who's Who
Good article by Eli Erlick in the August G&LR, but why did she have to calumniate Violette Morris?
glreview.org/article/maki...
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Making Sense of the Trans Right - The Gay & Lesbian Review
https://glreview.org/article/making-sense-of-the-trans-right/
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Poundbury, Dorset, a new town designed by the Charles Windsor. "bus services were so minimal" ... "no public seats, litter bins, or public loos". A nepo-baby with servants for his slightest whim cannot be expected to understand the needs of ordinary people.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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The reality of life in the Royal town used as model for Labour growth
Perched on an unassuming hill in Dorset, hemmed in on all sides by congested main roads, rolling green fields and huge building sites - sits the small town of Poundbury - the future?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15158903/shops-streets-King-Charles-Disney-homes-Labours.html
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Zack Polanski, UK Green party leader, on Manchester synagogue killings and anti-genocide marches:
www.channel4.com/news/i-dont-...
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âI donât call on anyone to stop protestingâ: Polanski on pro-Palestine marches
We spoke to the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski, who has been addressing his party's annual conference in Bournemouth.
https://www.channel4.com/news/i-dont-call-on-anyone-to-stop-protesting-polanski-on-pro-palestine-marches
7 days ago
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A strange book called Strange Lives, 1933. Dr La Forest Potter describes queer New York, but misunderstands so much.
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La Forest Potter (1855-1951), an early 1930s witness to queer New York
La Forest Potter. Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities . Robert Dodsley Company/ National Library Press, 1933. Trigger warning:...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-forest-potter-1855-1951-early-1930s.html
13 days ago
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Article re Disney's reversals and removal of mentions that a character is gay or trans.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
17 days ago
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I supported of the UK Liberal Party from the 1960s, but have not forgiven the betrayal Coalition with Cameron. However:
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/22/l...
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Lib Dems reject bid to prevent trans women standing in roles reserved for women
Liberal Democrat members at the party's annual conference have rejected a bid to bar trans women from standing in roles reserved for women.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/22/lib-dems-conference-trans-diversity-quotas/
17 days ago
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Re the new World Athletics sex testing for women. Pink News, 23.9.25.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/w...
17 days ago
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Who is Graham Linehan, a man who sacrificed his career for the sacred (irony) cause of transphobia?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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How Graham Linehanâs gender activism led to career armageddon
What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/03/how-graham-linehan-gender-activism-led-to-comedian-career-and-personal-armageddon
about 1 month ago
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Rudy Giuliani, KBE, one-time drag performer gets a medal from his stage partner.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/p...
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Trump announces he will award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will award former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-presidential-medal-of-freedom
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The Sophia Brooks case aginst transphobe Graham Linehan is currently in court.
www.primetimer.com/news/who-is-...
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Who is Sophia Brooks? Graham Linehan pled not guilty to harassing transgender woman months before arrest over tweets
Graham Linehan was previously accused of harassing Sophia Brooks, a transgender rights activist
https://www.primetimer.com/news/who-is-sophia-brooks-graham-linehan-pled-not-guilty-to-harassing-transgender-woman-months-before-arrest-over-tweets
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Trans comedian wins at Edinburgh Fringe.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Trans woman scoops award for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe
The show Baby Doomer explores life as a trans woman and won the Taffner Family best comedy show prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15027853/Trans-woman-scoops-award-Best-Comedy-Edinburgh-Fringe.html
about 2 months ago
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The client kings appease the over-king. Craig Murray: "I am not sure there has been a sight in modern history equivalent to the way Europeâs 'leaders' were pictured in the White House."
www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
about 2 months ago
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Farage advisor suggests that UK take back Canada, Australia, South Africa as colonies.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may âregainâ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/16/nigel-farage-adviser-uk-would-be-better-off-if-it-had-not-fought-nazi-germany
about 2 months ago
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A reminder of the various bibliographies that I have published, including a yearly round-up of books for each year all the way back to 2007.
zagria.blogspot.com/p/bibliograp...
about 2 months ago
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M J Bassett, who is incidentally trans, has directed 24 films and TV episodes. Her latest is a remake of Red Sonja.
www.imdb.com/name/nm10681...
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M.J. Bassett | Director, Producer, Writer
Known for: Solomon Kane, Ash vs Evil Dead, Power
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1068186/?ref_=nmtrv_ov_bk
about 2 months ago
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Yet more cis women being challenged in toilets etc.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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âIâve been spat onâ: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UKâs supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities â but others call it scaremongering
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/ive-been-spat-on-gender-non-conforming-women-tell-of-toilet-abuse-in-aftermath-of-supreme-court-ruling
about 2 months ago
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So many known trans patients of Magnus Hirschfeld not even mentioned in recent books.
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/08/thre...
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Three recent books about Magnus Hirschfeld
There have been three recent books about Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institut fĂŒr Sexualwissenschaft:  Rainer Herrn's  Der Liebe und dem L...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/08/three-recent-books-about-magnus.html
2 months ago
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Article in The Mail on the 1929 murder scandal in Tiszazug, Hungary, does not even mention trans man PipĂĄs Pista!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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The village of wives who killed their husbands after years of abuse
From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14975707/The-village-wives-killed-HUNDREDS-husbands-years-horrific-beatings-abuse-one-woman-led-terrifying-murderous-spate-revenge.html
2 months ago
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The drive to remove all gay+trans, critical thinking, alternate opinions etc from the internet. Especially anonymity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship â and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/uk-online-safety-act-internet-censorship-world-following-suit
2 months ago
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Seppel Einsmann was 12 years a man before being compelled back to womanhood. Ignored in most German trans histories.
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Seppel Einsmann (1885 â 1959) factory worker
Seppel was born Maria Mayer, the eldest child of a factory worker and a housewife, in Bruchsal , 20 km from Karlsruhe  in the state of Ba...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/08/seppel-einsmann-1885-1959-factory-worker.html
2 months ago
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I have much expanded my 15-year-old article on Finocchio's. Now in 2 parts.
zagria.blogspot.com/2010/01/fino...
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Finocchioâs â a nightclub: Part I: the early years
Original version , January 2010. Part I: the early years Part II: post WWIIÂ Part I: the early years Joe Finocchio (1897 - 1986) was bor...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/01/finocchios-nightclub.html
2 months ago
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This week I've watched 2 streaming programs, Extreme Railway Journeys and Good Ship Muder, that visited Casablanca, and neither even mentioned its world pioneering sex-change clinic.
3 months ago
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Roberta Betty Cowell was not a positive role model.
3 months ago
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Given that corporations and governments have decided to accelerate the process.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
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âItâs too lateâ: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/
3 months ago
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Perhaps the first trans winner of a sporting event, later removed from the record. Violet Morris, before top surgery, did win the motor racing Bol d'or in 1927 against male opponents.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol_d%2...
hides this and says 'Lempereur' instead.
3 months ago
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Rainer Herrn. Schnittmuster des Geschlechts: Tranvestitismus and Transsexualitat in der fruhen Sexualwissenscaft. 2005 is now 20 years old. This is an essential text for anyone writing about Hirschfeld's trans patients. Why is there no English translation published.
3 months ago
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Buzz Feed published a list of trans persons, mainly the usual suspects. Here is what I think is more interesting list.
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15 other persons worthy of more attention
Buzz feed a few days ago ran a list of 19 trans persons who had achieved something in life. I have two problems with it. It is a list o...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/06/15-other-persons-worthy-of-more.html
3 months ago
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5 misconceptions re Magnus Hirschfeldâs Die Transvestite.
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/06/magn...
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Magnus Hirschfeldâs Die Transvestiten â some observations
Part 1:Â Â 3 misconceptions Part 2: 2 more misconceptions Hirschfeldâs other Books Misconception #1 : the claim that Die Transvestiten is H...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/06/magnus-hirschfelds-die-transvestiten.html
4 months ago
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Three centuries of police raids. I posted this in January 2016.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/01/thre...
Photo of facilitator Joseph Doucé, murdered 1990.
4 months ago
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An Australian doctors' site is claiming that it owns this photo of Susan Faludi and her trans father, and threathens legal action if I do not link it to docbook com au. Faludi is a US author, not an Australian doctor.
4 months ago
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This is found in Charlotte Wolff's biography of Hirschfeld. The waitress is elsewhere taken to be Dorchen Richter. Frau Muhr is otherwise unknown, even in Rainer Herrn's books. No mention of Muhr in Wolff's text. Wolfe does not give any patient names.
4 months ago
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Academia.edu
: An AI created a podcast of my paper "Liz Eden and Dog Day Afternoon" Listen to podcast âž
www.academia.edu/ai_podcast/9...
(© 2025 Academia) My paper:
www.academia.edu/97879591/Liz...
or
zagria.blogspot.com/2020/08/liz-...
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Liz Eden and Dog Day Afternoon: Part I - Two Weddings and a Bank Robbery
â Trigger warning. This 3-part article contains quotations from John Wojtowicz, the major protagonist. The quotations contain frequent m...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2020/08/liz-eden-and-dog-day-afternoon-part-i.html
5 months ago
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A question just posted on my account of Rusty Rae Moore. What happened to the Leo Wollman/Lee Brewster archives initially housed at Transy House?
5 months ago
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A.C. a day worker trans man sent to the state hospital after a financial dispute with his mother-in-law. Arkansas 1932.
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Amandus Balitzki (1890 - ?) postal clerk and Hirschfeld patient.
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...
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Amandus Balitzki (1890 - ?) postal clerk
Balitzki was born in the then German city of Stettin , the illegitimate, later legitimate, child of a railway man and a nurse. Although rais...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/05/amandus-balitzki-1890-postal-clerk.html
5 months ago
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As this is Trans History Week, a reminder of the major trans history sites. Visit and learn.
zagria.blogspot.com/p/other-tran...
5 months ago
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I have expanded the list of trans history sites.
zagria.blogspot.com/p/other-tran...
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Other Trans History sites
Of course, this site: Gender Variance Who's Who https://zagria.blogspot.com Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) An online hub for digitize...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/p/other-trans-history-sites.html
6 months ago
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Alison Betchel on what is now the toilet situation in Britain.
6 months ago
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The self-described autogynephile Debbie Hayton welcomes the Supreme Court ruling against other trans woman.
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...
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This isn't a 'defeat' for trans women, it's a reflection of who we are
Thank the Lord for some common sense. In this case, thank Lord Hodge, who yesterday delivered the UK Supreme Court 's unanimous ruling that trans women are not biologically female.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14619173/DEBBIE-HAYTON-era-collective-madness-not-defeat-trans-women-accurate-reflection-really-are.ht
6 months ago
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Trump has imposed tariffs on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald islands near Antarctica, along with other remote external Australian territories the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories â including islands home to penguins â targeted by US president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands
6 months ago
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reposted by
Zagria
Lili-Elbe-Bibliothek
7 months ago
Ein aufmerksamer Leser machte mich hierauf aufmerksam, und ich konnte gleich beide Ausgaben beschaffen. Das Buch »Knabenzeit« von Andreas Burnier (ein Pseudonym oder Wunschname, da bin ich mir nicht sicher) erschien in deutscher Ăbersetzung 1993 und 2016, das niederlĂ€ndische Original bereits 1969.
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Received 2 emails from Anuj Agarwal at Feedspot. One includes my site among a list of personal trans blogs. Feedspot is a commercial come-on that wants you to sign up and a pay a monthly fee. No criteria for the rankings are given. It gives twitter but not Bsky ids for sites listed! Beware
7 months ago
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No mention at all of gender surgery or John Money on the Johns Hopkins timeline
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/histor...
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Timeline
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/timeline/
7 months ago
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Rod Fleming, autogynephilia theorist based on experiences in the Philippines.
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Rod Fleming (1956 - ) writer, photographer, lover of trans women
Rod Fleming, raised in Scotland, cis, attended Edinburgh School of Art in the 1980s â where he first met some trans women â and became a jou...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/03/rod-fleming-1956-writer-photographer.html
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reposted by
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Lili-Elbe-Bibliothek
7 months ago
Die Website der Lili-Elbe-Bibliothek
lili-elbe.de
ist grundlegend ĂŒberarbeitet und hat ein frisches Design bekommen! Schon seit mehreren Jahren war ich unzufrieden mit der Website der Bibliothek, nachdem sich das SelbstverstĂ€ndnis und die AktivitĂ€ten deutlich verschoben haben.
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An attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of publications by Harry Benjamin.
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/03/harr...
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Harry Benjamin Bibliography
There has never been a comprehensive bibliography of writings by Harry Benjamin. I did a partial in previous writings, and found partial bi...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2025/03/harry-benjamin-bibliography.html
7 months ago
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A long article on the Zizizns (Trans??)
www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...
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They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence
7 months ago
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Clair Elgin makes lots of money and then loses it. Despite health problems, she lives a full life. The first trans woman to become a millionaire
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
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I have updated my disambiguation of the competing names re Benjamin's first 10 cases - the update is mainly re Claire Elgin.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/11/harr...
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Harry Benjaminâs first 10 cases: a disambiguation
Connie Christine Wheeler & Leah Cahan Schaefer âHarry Benjamin's first ten cases (1938-1953): a clinical historical noteâ. Archives of Se...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2016/11/harry-benjamins-first-10-cases.html
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I have updated my list of first known US trans women to include Claire Elgin and some others initially missed.
zagria.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-...
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The first US Trans Women up to 1966
1966, the date of Benjaminâs The Transsexual Phenomenon , and the start of surgeries at John Hopkins and other university clinics is of cour...
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-first-us-trans-women-up-to-1966.html
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