I once had a teacher trying to sell us Verlaine and Rimbaud's relationship as friendship... Like yeah totally they wrote poems about fucking each other in the ass and Verlaine almost died from a woundshot in a conjugal argument but hey you know how close friendship can get sometimes.
Victorian doctor James Barry: Pretends to be male to become a doctor since the age of 19, only one person knows his secret, he asks that he be buried under his male name and wearing masculine clothes, lives as a male after retirement
Historians: What a woman amirite
Trans people around the world:
Historians: What a woman amirite
Trans people around the world: