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"Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender"

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"In 1746, Charles Hamilton, a doctor, married Mary Price in Wells, England. Hamilton was a traveling doctor, selling patent medicines and dubious medical advice, and had met Mary when staying in a rented room. After the wedding, Mary joined Charles in traveling and selling cures for a couple of months until suddenly, she decided she no longer wanted to be married – and to get out of the relationship, Mary went to the local court and reported that her husband Charles Hamilton was, in fact, a woman. The revelation that Hamilton was assigned female at birth but lived their life as a man enchanted the public, and, as much as something could in the 18th century, went viral. Hamilton’s story was then immortalized in a fictionalized story called The Female Husband. Thus, the concept of a “female husband,” or a person assigned female at birth but living as a man, including serving as a husband, entered into the consciousness of the Anglo-American world. The history of female husbands like Charles Hamilton and many others prove not only that queerness has always existed, but that gender itself has always has been messy, flexible, and contested."

There is more text as well as a podcast at the link.

 

America's first new religious community was founded by one of the first nonbinary Americans​

The androgynous Public Universal Friend attracted a big enough following to found their own town.​

What it’s about: America’s first nonbinary celebrity. They were born in colonial Rhode Island in 1752, and after nearly dying from fever in 1776, declared themselves a genderless evangelist named Public Universal Friend. Upon recovering, they claimed they had died and their body had been reanimated with a new soul, sent by God to preach the good word. Thereafter, they wore androgynous clothes, and no longer used gendered pronouns or their birth name.​


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Thing we were happiest to learn: While the Friend preached sexual abstinence, they eventually found love. At least, as far as we can tell—Wikipedia uses the “these women who lived together for decades and raised a child together were very, very good friends” tone well-known to readers of history. But in 1785, a young widow named Sarah Richards moved in with the Friend (along with her infant daughter). Sarah adopted similarly androgynous dress, planned the house they built and lived in together for the rest of her life, and left her child in the Friend’s care after her death in 1793. Again, just really, really good friends.
 
Everything that we've been sold as traditional was invented by advertisers in the 1940s and 50s, and everything dismissed as newfangled or unnatural has been around for thousands of years.
 
Interesting. I guess this was the trans of the time, before GAS was available.

Another interesting item in the marriage lexicon would be the lavender marriage.
 
Not a transgender story but the unfortunately named Archibald Butt, who held very popular parties for political figures with his “very close friend and roommate” in Washington DC, was a key advisor to two presidents who tragically died on the Titanic:

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