It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists

[Hazumu]

by Susan Stryker.

http://www.eqfl.org/pdfs/enda/HistoryLessons.pdf

"1. Transgender is not a recent fad; Anti-transgender discrimination is not new.
In the United States, cities all across the country started passing ordinances against crossdressing
beginning in the 1840s. That's not a typo. The 1840s. A common phrase in these
laws made it a crime for a man or a woman to appear in public "in a dress not belonging
to his or her sex."

2. Why were so many nineteenth-century cities making it illegal to cross-dress?
Good question. Must be because a lot of people were doing it."

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Great talking points!

Karen

[Shana A]

Karen,

Thanks for posting this, everyone should read it!!

zythyra

[Lisbeth]

In the nineteenth century, the majority of them were women dressing in men's clothes.  This is the opposite of the twentieth century.

[Wing Walker]

In the nineteenth century, the majority of them were women dressing in men's clothes.  This is the opposite of the twentieth century.

Frederic Chopin had a romance with one George Sand who was a cross-dressing woman.

Wing Walker

[Shana A]

Frederic Chopin had a romance with one George Sand who was a cross-dressing woman.

I've always been fascinated about their relationship, looking at it through my 21st century lenses, it seems to be very queer or trans.

zythyra