Post #3332722
2023-03-16 03:25 UTC
Having difficulty pinning down dates for press coverage of Chevaliere d'Eon. She died in 1810 and her autopsy was published the same year, but she was in the news as early as 1777.
It's just that "the news" didn't archive this far back, so pinning down specifics is hella tricky.
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@miriamrobern@dice.camp 2023-03-16 03:51
And then there's folks like Albert Cashier, who managed to avoid the media entirely and only got rediscovered decades later by queer historians. The vast divergence between no coverage and frantic pearl-clutching coverage is wild. And it begs the question: which template is "normal?" Was it usually a big story? Or did most trans folks avoid the press and live quiet lives as their proper gender?