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silvermyth
· 6 years ago
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I think he might have been trans. He didn't want his female body to be seen after death, but that didn't work out.
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freudiandip
· 6 years ago
Could be, but it's just as likely that she just wanted an education and a good career.
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silvermyth
· 6 years ago
What’s odd, is that every document there is about him, written from a fairly young age, is signed James Barry or is consistently male. In the very first, he calls himself just “a gentleman”. We’re pretty sure it’s that he was born female. And he took a lot of measures to be sure that his sex wasn’t discovered after death. I don’t know if it’s exactly right to call him the modern word “transgender”, but there’s some evidence to suggest that this case was a little more than just a woman in a man’s clothes. I’m not denying that possibility, either.
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xoelephantxo
· 6 years ago
Real life Lillian Linton.
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