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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Channel 4 report on Julia Curlee & Bree Fram. www.channel4.com/news/the-tra...
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The transgender officers caught up in Trump’s purge
As soon as President Trump was sworn in, he said official US government policy would only recognise two genders: male and female.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I wrote about Michaela Lindner back in 2008. Someone who knew her personally has just added a 4-part comment. zagria.blogspot.com/2008/05/mich...
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Michaela Lindner (1958 - ) politician, theatre agent.
Lindner studied process technology at the Technical University in Dresden , German Demo cratic Republic, married as a man and they had 2 chi...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So, Burnham has gone on holiday rather than reverse the toilet madness that will cost 10 of millions that was passed on by his predecessor. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/single-sex-spaces-laws-toilets-trans-rights-supreme-court-b3027266.html
independent.co.uk
What new single-sex space laws mean for schools, hospitals and trans people
Nearly 13,000 toilets and more than 5,000 changing rooms may need changing under the Supreme Court ruling
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There are three major works of literature based on Homer's Odyssey: The Aeneid, The Gospel of Mark, Joyce's Ulysses. But not Nolan's film. Here is the best critique of the film that I have found. www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/31/r...
The procession of Odysseus’s Horse into Troy. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1760. National Gallery, London.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Remembering Barbara de Lamere, and her wife the noted poet. zagria.blogspot.com/2026/07/barb...
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Barbara de Lamere (1940 - ) proof-reader, magazine editor
Most of the trans women in New York in the 1970s who are written about did not get as far as completion surgery. One who did so was Barbara ...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What has happened to TransRead? transreadsdotorg.wordpress.com
transreadsdotorg.wordpress.com
Private Site
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The gay male William Percy Foundation is sponsoring The Autogynephilia Project as if this is still the 1980s, ignoring the strange byways that AGP has taken over the decades. wapercyfoundation.org?p=1920
A cis woman - is she AGP?
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So Burnham has kept Starmer's Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson. Is this signal not to expect any improvement in trans rights?
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Not really a solution:
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
RIP Michelle Dubarry, 94, Toronto drag legend. zagria.blogspot.com/2008/10/mich...
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Michelle DuBarry (1931 - 2026) performer.
Russel Alldread was born in Bowmanville , Ontario. His boy soprano won him first prize a t the 1939 Port Hope Music Festival, singing “Cobbl...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thinking about how April Ashley quite open on the title page about her two ghostwriters, Duncan Fallowell and Douglas Thompson, while Chistine Jorgensen hid Irmis Johnson and Lois Kibbee in the fine print.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
‪Probably the first Canadian trans woman with completion surgery 1954. zagria.blogspot.com/2026/06/fran...
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Frances Marie Jefferson (1929- ?) truck driver, domestic
Jefferson was born in the village of Bridgetown , Nova Scotia, seventh in a family of 10 living children. The attending practitioner was un...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Afghanistan's ancient tradition of enforced drag pederasty continues under Taliban. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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The children forced into 'Bacha Bazi' sexual servitude by the Taliban
The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries, turning boys into sex slaves for the country's elite.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Remembering Valérie Wilson, star of Melville's Un Flic, 1972. zagria.blogspot.com/2026/05/vale...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This year's Koovagam festival. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘It’s like a trans-Barbie world!’: the Indian festival where transgender women can celebrate without fear
The annual gathering at Koovagam is rooted in an ancient poem. Five trans attendees talk about what the event means to them in light of a controversial change to the country’s gender recognition law
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This week's Canadian census requires both sex and sex at birth. This would provide a list for a Poilievre government or for a US invasion to do bad things.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Trump-supporter Jenner doesn't like having a male passport. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Caitlyn Jenner asked Trump for help correcting the gender on passport
The 76-year-old former Olympian said her identification listed her sex as 'M' despite  having all of her legal documents updated to reflect her transition.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Going through life with the name of Mycock. theconversation.com/my-surname-m...
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My surname makes people laugh – so I turned it into a research communication tool
Having my surname is a daily trial, eliciting a range of responses from suppressed to open laughter and unsolicited comments.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Remembering Wilma Creith, Belfast bus driver. zagria.blogspot.com/2026/04/wilm...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I have uploaded my review of Alison Li’s biography of Harry Benjamin to Academia.edu www.academia.edu/165510240/A_... An emphasis on endocrinology, but with a total disinterest in Benjamin's patients, and an over-reliance on Meyerowitz for Hirschfeld's and Warnekos' patients.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why don't we use the word 'illth' more often for it describes in what we live.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Dave Davies of the Kinks defends 'Lola' citing Cockettes and Jayne County. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’
The band’s co-founder responded to the US musician’s comments, defending the song and saying they are ‘not transphobic’
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Andréa Furet, a rising French actress. zagria.blogspot.com/2026/03/andr...
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Andréa Furet (2002 - ) actrice
Furet was rasied in Paris, father a communications manager, mother a journalist at the magazine Elle . Furet dreamed of acting, and at age 1...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Craig Murray: "What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come." www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
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The War for Greater Israel - Craig Murray
There has scarcely been an attempt to pretend any justification in international law for the attack on Iran and murder of its leader. The response of the UK government, focusing almost entirely on con...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Why do drivers' licences have a sex/gender code on them anyway? Age, name, addess, licence type. - yes. But sex/gender is irrelevant to entitlement to drive.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Warning via Soft Machine 1968: It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse Making life easy, by making it worse
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Another example of a cis woman's original (dead?) name being kept hidden. Stevenson was not married to anyone called Biden. www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/u...
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Jill Biden’s ex-husband charged with murder in death of his current wife | CNN
The ex-husband of former first lady Dr. Jill Biden has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his current wife, authorities said Tuesday.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Trans women working for the city in Hyderabad timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderab...
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Now, we belong: Uniform opens doors to acceptance for transgenders in Hyderabad | Hyderabad News - The Times of India
Hyderabad: From seeking alms at traffic signals to manning traffic at the same intersections, life has come a full circle for Swathi, Bhanupriya and T.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The situation for trans women in Pakistan. "55 killings in Sindh province between 2022 and September 2025, including 17 in Karachi". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘She narrowly escaped three bullets’: Pakistan’s trans community shaken by attacks and killings
A wave of violence has left transgender people afraid to go out, as experts say the global rise of far-right ideology is fuelling transphobia
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
35+ US trans asylum seekers in the Netherlands. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘I was afraid for my life’: the transgender refugees fleeing Trump’s America
Fear, abuse and eroding rights for trans people have created a hostile environment in the US – can they claim asylum in the Netherlands?
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Hugo Chavez reduced extreme poverty by over 70%, ...halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100% literacy. Chavez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal. www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...
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Venezuela and Truth - Craig Murray
The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They many times mentioned Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President, because Trump stated she is now in charge. They never mentioned that 2026 marks th...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Greg Palast on Venezuela: www.gregpalast.com/when-venezue...
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When Venezuela's President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM
It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television reporter, that the US was planning to kidnap...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A scurrilous and distorting posting that draws upon my work to reach a conclusion that I certainly do not agree with. It misrepresents and distorts trans history as "undigested misogyny, entitlement and an enduring susceptibility to distinctly bizarre ideas". threadreaderapp.com/thread/14803...
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Thread by @TwisterFilm on Thread Reader App
Thread by @TwisterFilm: 1./ What's the truth about the rise of the modern trans movement? Behind the largely fictional official tale there's a stranger, more interesting reality. There's a glimpse of ...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I was sufficiently annoyed by Martin's book that I reviewed it. zagria.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-re...
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A review of James I. Martin’s Sexual and Gender Minority History: A Counter-Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2025.
This is a LGBT+ history book. However I will be reviewing mainly the trans elements. Despite the title, this book is a history of LGBT in t...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Academia says that my close reading of Benjamin's The Transsexual Phenomenon in in their top 2%. Yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra... does not even mention me or the issues that I documented within the book. zagria.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-re...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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 and up to 2025. zagria.blogspot.com/p/bibliograp...
two of my shelves
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In 2009 I discussed Hermann Goring amd concluded that he was not trans, but a homovestite. 16 years later historian Mark Felton has arrived at the same conclusion. zagria.blogspot.com/2009/01/was-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7SD...
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Was Hermann Göring a transvestite?
This article is about the Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, who ranked second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Those interested ...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Interviews with two survivors, one gay, one trans, of NHS electroshock therapy 2065-73. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy
More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Part one of my annual list of books re gender variance is now posted. zagria.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...
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Books on Gender Variance in 2025 - Part 1: (auto) biographies and histories
AutoBiography Jean-Sebastien Busque. Gender Bilingual: Translating Life for Men and Women . Editions RESONANCE Publisher, 2025. Edward-Jea...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Was Jae Stevens, a performer, actually murdered by the Doodler? zagria.blogspot.com/2025/11/jae-...
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Jae Stevens (1947-1974) performer, murdered
Stevens was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but raised in Concord in the East Bay across from San Francisco. He came out as gay when he was call...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Best not to commit fraud when cross-dressing for the first time. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
dailymail.co.uk
Unemployed son, 56, 'dressed as his late mother to claim her pension'
The 56-year-old man, an unemployed nurse, reportedly managed to claim thousands of euros before his act was exposed. He had also allegedly hidden the dead body of his mother.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Have not been to TransasCity.org for a while. Attempted today. It is not there anymore. A serious loss.
transascity.org
Account Suspended
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi), author, school teacher, star at La Carrousel, is 90 years old today - born 11/11/1935.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Every now and then, I feel that maybe I would join Medium.com. Supposedly they send a 6-digit code for confirmation, but it never, ever, ever arrives. !!!! So that is the end of that.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I tried out the meta search engine Searxng by doing an ego search. It finds images from my site, but no articles from there or from Academia.edu except for my Virginia Prince article. Only that one.
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Was Francois-Timoléon de Choisy (1644 - 1724) a cross-dreamer who never transvested in public, or a flamboyant who enjoyed being read? zagria.blogspot.com/2025/10/fran...
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Francois-Timoléon de Choisy (1644 - 1724), Part 1: Abbé, diplomat, author, cross-dreamer
Part 1: Life, and the 1695 short-story Part 2: discussion and bibliography François-Timoléon was born in August 1644, a week after the Batt...
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Jennie June writing as Mowry Saben; The Spirit of Life, 1914:
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Zagria @zagria.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Good article by Eli Erlick in the August G&LR, but why did she have to calumniate Violette Morris? glreview.org/article/maki...
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Making Sense of the Trans Right - The Gay & Lesbian Review
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