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![mixture of tolerance, desire, and contempt with which men regarded fairies . . . resulted from . . . the fairies’ style [which] was comparable not [to] some ideal category of womanhood [but] to that of a particular subgroup of women or cultural type: prostitutes and other so- called ‘tough girls’” (ibid., 60– 61). In this social sphere, in which there devel-oped what Jeffrey Weeks describes as a “vast homosexual argot, often international in character,” the categories “woman” and “trans femi-nine” conditioned each other as they shared a common social burden (Weeks, 41).
Consideration of the social history of the early twentieth century re-veals that the understanding of sexuality in terms of homosexuality or heterosexuality was a largely middle- class phenomenon until the post– World War II period. Carpenter and others’ project of disarticulating the gender normative homosexual from the trans feminine person oc-curred much earlier in bourgeois homes and workplaces than in the “fairy resorts” of Manhattan’s Bowery and London’s “major cruising area,” Leicester Square (Chauncey, 188). In the British and continental European context, David F. Greenberg writes that transgeneral homosexuality . . . was nothing new . . . doc-tors of the Old World could hardly have been unaware of it; it received too much publicity. It was new that patients were turning to doctors for advice on their condition. Their doing so refl ects the belief not only that their condition was problematic, but also that doctors could help them with it.
Neither the English mollies nor their doctors would have thought so. (Greenberg, 386) These social histories reveal that the “new” sexological and psychoana-lytic responses to trans femininity that this chapter has surveyed in fact intervened to subject to a logic of diagnosis and cure what had been a fairly simple social reality: trans feminine people had long lived as women.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lpbrtmsvjk6dedp6rbfzwoya/bafkreibd5gp6ydjafdrcu72c2uryp46pzeo7porbjlberlmvdxb5crpmm4)
