Transgender History Timeline
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
These entries reference transgender history in the United States. Sometimes the reference is central, sometimes minor but useful to those interested in this subject.
1782-1797
Deborah Sampson: "Animal love, on her part, was out of the question," 1782-1797
1890-1962
Alberta Lucille Hart/Alan L. Hart: October 4, 1890-July 1, 1962
1894, January 18
Badger State Banner: Anna Morris/Frank Blunt and Gertrude Field, January 18, 1894
1902, November
Alienist and Neurologist: "Marriages Between Women," November 1902
1914, May 15-16
Day Book: Cora Anderson/Ralph Kerwinieo, May 15-16, 1914
1936
Alan Hart: "The Undaunted," 1936
1958
Barbara Gittings: Founding New York Daughters of Bilitis, 1958
1962-1972
Alma Routsong: "Patience and Sarah," 1962-1972
1981
1998
Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1998).
2000, June-2002, April
Pauline Park: "Campaign for a Transgender Rights Law," NYC, June 2000-April 2002
2001
Kates, Gary. Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman* (JHU Press 2001).
2012
Mak, Geertje. Doubting Sex. Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories (Manchester University Press, 2012).
- See: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719086908
- Discusses many primary sources as well as the historical work done by Dreger, Thomas Laqueur (Making Sex), and Elizabeth Reis (Bodies in Doubt).
