Building a Transgender History

with some questionable facts

"The Hirshfield Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture." By Heike Bauer, published this year (2017)

Jenny Cyphers :

One would assume that if the first successful surgery was in 1930, then there may have been prior, unsuccessful ones to that. It's true about Hitler destroying that library, unfortunately. It's interesting that someone has written a book about the Hirshfield Archives. I wonder where they got their source material.

December 12, 2017

Painting in Portland
Questionable documentation for an Italian painting

Claim of "Two-spirit" being a universal or widespread term or concept
Claim of Chaucer using "they" as singular reference
Changing History with new terminology
Retroactively Transgender—Christina Jorgensen page, re-written to take out statements from those days and recast it as transgender, rather than transexual.
Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?
Anne Lister: Plaque wording to change after 'lesbian' row
A famous lesbian with an early same-sex marriage was described on a new plaque as "gender non-conforming," for a life lived from 1791 to 1840. The plaque will be replaced, and apologies were issued, according to the article.


Transgender index page Links and commentary (originating in an unschooling forum) Public facebook group (if it's still there)