Transsexed History: OUR history

[Daryn]

Originally Posted by Linus

One of the commentors mentioned Dr. Alan Hart so I looked him up and found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_L._Hart

So who else makes up our history?

Alan Hart is local to my world. One of the local queer rights groups (name has changed a couple of times and mission has morphed a bit) used to call its big annual fund raising dinner the Lucille Hart Ball. Eventually, that stopped as trans activists pointed out that Alan lived most of his adult life as a man and that using a name he'd quit using was disrespectful.

There is a bit of history about women becoming men to fight in wars:

http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

http://americancivilwar.com/women/

There is history about Deborah Samson enlisted as Robert Shirtliffe in the revolutionary war.

I suspect that this goes back well in time when it would be unlikely to be recorded.