Zagria
@zagria.bsky.social
author of the Gender Variance Who's Who
Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi), author, school teacher, star at La Carrousel, is 90 years old today - born 11/11/1935.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi), author, school teacher, star at La Carrousel, is 90 years old today - born 11/11/1935.
Travelling on a male passport! Amy Coleman re Marsha P Johnson returning from London in the 70s where she had been performing with the Hot Peaches.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Travelling on a male passport! Amy Coleman re Marsha P Johnson returning from London in the 70s where she had been performing with the Hot Peaches.
web.archive.org/web/20081204...
web.archive.org/web/20081204...
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Jennie June writing as Mowry Saben; The Spirit of Life, 1914:
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Jennie June writing as Mowry Saben; The Spirit of Life, 1914:
GLBT+ much more involved with the Nazis. Why is Morris the chaufeur the one condemned.
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
GLBT+ much more involved with the Nazis. Why is Morris the chaufeur the one condemned.
Of course, the classic example of de-transing was the 1965 film of James Clavel's King Rat, 1962, based on his own experiences in a Japanese POW camp. The book features a POW female impersonator, who was in the first script, but then removed by the studio suits.
gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/king...
gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/king...
September 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Of course, the classic example of de-transing was the 1965 film of James Clavel's King Rat, 1962, based on his own experiences in a Japanese POW camp. The book features a POW female impersonator, who was in the first script, but then removed by the studio suits.
gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/king...
gvarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/king...
Article re Disney's reversals and removal of mentions that a character is gay or trans. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Article re Disney's reversals and removal of mentions that a character is gay or trans. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Re the new World Athletics sex testing for women.
Pink News, 23.9.25. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/w...
Pink News, 23.9.25. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/w...
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Re the new World Athletics sex testing for women.
Pink News, 23.9.25. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/w...
Pink News, 23.9.25. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/w...
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 Europe’s 'leaders' were pictured in the White House." www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Craig Murray: "I am not sure there has been a sight in modern history equivalent to the way Europe’s 'leaders' were pictured in the White House." www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
August 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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 Europe’s 'leaders' were pictured in the White House." www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
Craig Murray: "I am not sure there has been a sight in modern history equivalent to the way Europe’s 'leaders' were pictured in the White House." www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
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.
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zagria.blogspot.com/p/bibliograp...
August 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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...
zagria.blogspot.com/p/bibliograp...
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.
July 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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.
Roberta Betty Cowell was not a positive role model.
July 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Roberta Betty Cowell was not a positive role model.
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.
July 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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.
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.
Why is there no English translation published.
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
Why is there no English translation published.
Three centuries of police raids.
I posted this in January 2016.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/01/thre...
Photo of facilitator Joseph Doucé, murdered 1990.
I posted this in January 2016.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/01/thre...
Photo of facilitator Joseph Doucé, murdered 1990.
June 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Three centuries of police raids.
I posted this in January 2016.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/01/thre...
Photo of facilitator Joseph Doucé, murdered 1990.
I posted this in January 2016.
zagria.blogspot.com/2016/01/thre...
Photo of facilitator Joseph Doucé, murdered 1990.
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.
June 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
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.
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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.
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?
May 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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?
A.C. a day worker trans man sent to the state hospital after a financial dispute with his mother-in-law. Arkansas 1932.
May 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A.C. a day worker trans man sent to the state hospital after a financial dispute with his mother-in-law. Arkansas 1932.
Alison Betchel on what is now the toilet situation in Britain.
April 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alison Betchel on what is now the toilet situation in Britain.
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
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zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
January 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
Claire Elgin, who in part II will become the first trans woman millionaire.
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zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Claire Elgin, who in part II will become the first trans woman millionaire.
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
zagria.blogspot.com/2025/01/clai...
Caitlin Moran, author of the provocative and fun book, How to Be a Woman (how many trans women took that as a guide book?) also has a book of collected essays, Moranthology. On page 107 she writes:
June 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Caitlin Moran, author of the provocative and fun book, How to Be a Woman (how many trans women took that as a guide book?) also has a book of collected essays, Moranthology. On page 107 she writes: