That being transgender is the result of the internet and grooming. We are a new phenomenon created recently because of what is posted on the internet and because grooming but as usual the conservatives believe the lies told them. Well have you ever heard of Lili Elbe, there was a movie about her and have you heard of Chevalier d’Éon?
LGBTQ Nation wrote about d’Eon back in 2018,
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LGBTQ Nation wrote about d’Eon back in 2018,
Meet a lost transgender icon: the Chevalier d’Éon
The Chevalier d'Éon was a French diplomat, soldier, and spy active in the mid to late 1700s. They could also have been intersex or transgender.
By Gwendolyn Smith*
October 20, 2018Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont — far better known as the Chevalier d’Éon — was a French diplomat, soldier, and spy active in the mid to late 1700s. They could also have been intersex or transgender.
In the 1750s, d’Éon was part of King Louis XV’s secret contingent of spies, and over the next 30 years ended up serving France in Russia and England, as well as leading soldiers in the Seven Years War.
Upon returning to France after an extended exile due to court intrigue, d’Éon demanded to be recognized as female, saying that they had been assigned female at birth, but raised as a boy because the family needed a male heir. In 1777 they began to openly live as female.
I don't like assigning present day definitions on historic people because we don't know how they identify or if they were intersex.
The Histroy Channel write about d’Éon…
The Chevalier d’Éon was born Charles d'Eon de Beaumont on October 5, 1728, and would go on to be a French soldier, spy, diplomat and in mid-life, a woman named Charlotte. D’Eon’s military exploits in the Seven Years’ War, role in negotiating the Paris Peace Treaty, and daring service as a spy for French King Louis XV was overshadowed by speculation about their gender.
Born biologically male, the Chevalier was legally declared female by French King Louis XVI and English courts and spent the last 33 years of their life as a woman. This famous figure blackmailed kings, fenced in dresses and courted controversy throughout their life—and after death.
But of course the Republicans think we are a new flash-in-the-pan, a Johnny-come-lately.
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Lili Elbe was a transgender Danish painter who was among the first-ever documented recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
Biography
September 30, 2022(1882-1931)
Who Was Lili Elbe?
Lili Elbe was born Einar Wegener in Vejle, Denmark in 1882 and moved to Copenhagen to study art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager. After marrying Gerda Gottlieb, Elbe discovered her true gender identity and began living as a woman. After undergoing four risky surgical procedures to transform her body from male to female, Elbe died from post-operative complications in Dresden, Germany, just shy of her 49th birthday. The story of her life was made into two books, Man into Woman, and the international bestseller The Danish Girl, as well as the 2015 film of the same name starring Eddie Redmayne.
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Sex Reassignment Surgery Recipient
In the 1920s, Elbe learned of the possibility of permanently transforming her body from male to female at the German Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the clinic in 1919 and coined the term “transsexualism” in 1923 (although some reports indicate that Elbe was the very first sex reassignment surgery recipient, she was not). There she underwent the first of four operations in 1930, a surgical castration procedure. The next three surgeries were conducted in 1930 and 1931 by Dr. Kurt Warnekros at the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic and included a penectomy, the transplantation of human ovarian tissue. According to Trans History, "some reports indicate that Elbe already had rudimentary ovaries in her abdomen and may have been intersex," and a subsequent unspecified surgery some weeks later that involved the insertion of a cannula. These surgeries permitted her to change her name and sex legally and allowed her to receive a passport as Lili Elbe (female).
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From GI Joe to GI Jane: Christine Jorgensen’s Story
WWII veteran Christine Jorgensen became the first American transgender woman to attain fame for having sex reassignment surgery. Her story has influenced many others and helped redefine gender identity.
National WWII Museum
June 30, 2020One day while flipping through my dad's collection of vintage Life magazines, the headline “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty” caught my eye. What followed was the fascinating story of Christine Jorgensen. Jorgensen, who served in the US Army during and after World War II, became the first American transgender woman to attain fame for having sex reassignment surgery. The article celebrated her heroism during the war and embraced her feminine qualities, such as her hair and fashionable clothes. Interestingly, the article was published in 1952, a time when gay and lesbian WWII veterans were often stripped of their medals and fired from their jobs because of who they loved. But why was Jorgensen celebrated when other members of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) community were not?
Christine was born George William Jorgensen, Jr. on May 30, 1926 in the Bronx, New York City. As a child, Jorgensen felt very different from other little boys and remained secluded and shy. The boys poked fun at Jorgensen’s feminine tendencies and even her own sister would chime in now and then. She seemed to gravitate toward dolls and dreamed of having the elegant feminine qualities that a woman possessed. In one of Jorgensen’s early memories, she recalled questioning her identity to her mother: “‘Mom,' I asked, 'why didn’t God make us alike? My mother gently explained that the world needed both men and women and there was no way of knowing before a baby was born whether it would be a boy or girl.” Jorgensen’s family was very close, and her grandmother became Jorgensen’s biggest champion and supported Jorgensen expressing her identity. In high school, Jorgensen developed an attraction to her male friends, but she knew at the time, she was not gay. Instead, she realized that she was a woman trapped inside a man’s body.
These are just the famous trans people in history, but there were many, many more who just lived out their lives in the shadows.
How many of us had to write a letter like that? I did to my cousins and close friends.How historians are documenting the lives of transgender people
The term “transgender” wasn’t coined until the 1960s—but people have always challenged the gender binary. Here’s a look at their history, from ancient civilizations to the modern rights movement.
National Geographic
ByErin Blakemore
June 24, 2022In 1952, a young woman sat down to write a letter to her family. The act itself was nothing remarkable—Christine Jorgensen was 26 and preparing to return to the United States after undergoing some medical procedures in Denmark. But the contents of Jorgensen’s letter were entirely unique.
“I have changed very much,” she told her family, enclosing a few photos. “But I want you to know that I am an extremely happy person...Nature made a mistake, which I have had corrected, and I am now your daughter.”
Though stigma, violence, and oppression are parts of trans history, Gill-Peterson says, trans people “still lived really interesting, rich, happy, flourishing trans lives.” And they left plenty of evidence behind, she says. “They generally are hiding in plain sight.”
There’s ample evidence of gender variance throughout human history. Among the earliest are accounts of gala and galli, priests assigned male at birth who crossed gender boundaries in their worship of a variety of goddesses in ancient Sumer, Akkadia, Greece, and Rome. Other cultures acknowledged a third gender, including two-spirit people within Indigenous communities and Hijra, nonbinary people who inhabit ritual roles in South Asia.
Some who challenged the gender binary occupied official roles. During the short reign of the Roman emperor best known as Elagabalus, who ruled from C.E. 218 to 222., the male-born leader adopted feminine dress, requested to be referred to as “she,” and expressed a desire for genital removal surgery. Shunned and stigmatized, Elagabalus was assassinated at age 18 and thrown into the Tiber River.
Albert Cashier, a figure from the 19th century, was more secretive. He served bravely in over 40 battles as a Union Army soldier in the U.S. Civil War—one of at least 250 people who, though assigned a female sex at birth, fought in the war as men. His war record was challenged after he was outed decades later. Though his military comrades defended him and he kept his military pension, Cashier was eventually confined to a mental institution and forced to wear women’s clothing.
The Republicans still try to push their lies on use to subjugate us. They want to force us out of existence! You don’t believe me, you think I exaggerate that? The 19th News writes,
Much of Project 2025 relates to gender, sexuality and race, aiming to end most all of the federal government’s efforts to achieve equity and even collect data that could be used to track outcomes across the public and private sectors.
The blueprint encourages the next presidential administration to disband the Gender Policy Council created by Democratic President Joe Biden and undo all of its work. Heritage suggests eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the federal government. The authors also want to take the following terms out of every rule and regulation: sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), DEI, gender, gender identity, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health and reproductive rights.
Project 2025 envisions a federal government that denies the existence of transgender people, undermines the rights of same-sex married couples and dismantles services for LGBTQ+ Americans wherever possible, primarily via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which the Heritage Foundation proposes renaming the Department of Life.
The plan calls for the newly named agency to take the official stance that families are made up of a married father and mother and children and to redirect federal funds to support a “biblically based” definition of family. It calls for replacing policies related to LGBTQ+ equity with those that “support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families” and would protect adoption and foster care services that refuse to work with LGBTQ+ married couples. It states that children should be raised by their “biological” fathers and mothers because the “male-female dyad is essential to human nature.”
newspeakIt only took 40 years to make 1984 real!
noun
new·speak ˈnü-ˌspēk
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often capitalized
: propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings
Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
First, though, says Gill-Peterson, historians and the public alike must turn their back on the idea that the existence of trans people is a recent phenomenon—and learn how to find their stories. “LGBT history is not physically hidden from us,” she says. “It’s hidden from our imagination about the past.”
I'm away to a cookout this weekend at a couple's house in Haverhill... so you have canned articles.
I'm bring Shotgun Shells for appetizers.
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