Zagria
zagria.bsky.social
Zagria
@zagria.bsky.social
author of the Gender Variance Who's Who
There are a whole load of book reviews, some positive, some negative, on my site. All the way back to 2007.

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A Gender Variance Who's Who
Essays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.......All human life is here.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Dear Lillian,
One of the essays in Broken Lights, 1914 is "The Right to Freedom". Could that be a revised version of The Gospel of Freedom? However I will place The Gospel of Freedom on my to-get mental shelf alongside Harry Benjamin's The Winter of Our Discontent.
October 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
June's second book, The Female Impersonators was completed while Saben was doing editing/writing work for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Jennie June was an alias of the distinguished Harvard graduate Mowry Saben who had previously written books under his male name - some of which are quite misogynist There are also articles in medical journals.

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Mowry Saben/Ralph Werther/Earl Lind/Jennie June: Part II - publications
Part I: early life Part II: publications Part III:  comments and bibliography   In 1907 Mowry Saben wrote a short newspaper article.  'Wom...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Marie-Josèphe Bonnet. Violette Morris: histoire d'une scandaleuse. Paris: Perrin, 2011.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
When the French Resistance assassinated Morris, they also murdered his passenger, a pork butcher, the butcher's wife and their two children.

Bonnet suggests that embarrassment over the killing of the two children led to a building up of the story of Morris' guilt.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
GLBT+ much more involved with the Nazis. Why is Morris the chaufeur the one condemned.
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Based on two pages in a novel by famous crime writer Auguste Le Breton, Les pègriots, 1973, which has 2 pages on Morris, Raymond Ruffin defamed Morris as La hyène de la Gestapo. Marie-Josèphe Bonnet debunked Ruffin's lies.

My account of Violette Morris. zagria.blogspot.com/2015/05/viol...
Violette Morris (1893–1944) Part II: performer, chauffeur, black-marketer.
Morris at Le Monocle Continued from Part I . In the 1931 census, Morris gave her name as Paule. At that time she employed a maid and t...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
And of course the real-life version of a star POW female impersonator in a Japanese camp was the celebrated Bobbie Spong who died in prisoner-transfer ship torpedoed by a US submarine.
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Bobbie Spong (191? - 1944) performer, WWII Prisoner of War
Spong was the son of the licencee of the Six Bells, Kings Road, Chelsea. On 7-8 th  December 1941 he was a private in the Royal Army Ordnanc...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:04 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.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Not disagreeing with your general point, but ambulances in Ontario and Quebec result in a small charge - $40 the last time we needed one.
September 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM