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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.

Another example of a cis woman's original (dead?) name being kept hidden. Stevenson was not married to anyone called Biden.

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Brigid was a goddess before deing demoted to a mere saint.

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.

Trans women working for the city in Hyderabad

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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

The situation for trans women in Pakistan. "55 killings in Sindh province between 2022 and September 2025, including 17 in Karachi".
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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?

35+ US trans asylum seekers in the Netherlands.
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It was. 6 Counties still are.

It should be England, not UK, as Wales, Scotland and Ireland were colonies.

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...

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.

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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...

Greg Palast on Venezuela:

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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".

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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...

I was sufficiently annoyed by Martin's book that I reviewed it.

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It is the nature of languages that adjectives become nouns become verbs etc etc. And vice versa.

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.

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two of my shelves

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.

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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 ...

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.

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Oops. Of course I meant 1965-73!

Carolyn Mercer (1947 - ) headteacher Mercer was raised by working-class parents in Preston , Lancashire, and left school at 16 with minimal qualifications to work for a plaster...

The BBC article features Carolyn Mercer who bacame a lauded head teacher.

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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.

Interviews with two survivors, one gay, one trans, of NHS electroshock therapy 2065-73.
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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...

Part one of my annual list of books re gender variance is now posted.

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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...

Was Jae Stevens, a performer, actually murdered by the Doodler?

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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.

Best not to commit fraud when cross-dressing for the first time.

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Have not been to TransasCity.org for a while. Attempted today. It is not there anymore. A serious loss.

Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi), author, school teacher, star at La Carrousel, is 90 years old today - born 11/11/1935.

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.

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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.

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.

There are a whole load of book reviews, some positive, some negative, on my site. All the way back to 2007.

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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...

Was Francois-Timoléon de Choisy (1644 - 1724) a cross-dreamer who never transvested in public, or a flamboyant who enjoyed being read?

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Jennie June writing as Mowry Saben; The Spirit of Life, 1914: