Michael Higgins (1915 - ?) fraudster

In 1938, after six years of steady employment and four years of marriage, Los Angeles resident, Michael Higgins was arrested on charges of grand theft and fraud. In jail it was discovered that was female-bodied. The police were embarrassed in that they had arrested and booked Higgins before without his sex being revealed.

* Not the baseball player, nor the basketball player, nor the footballer, nor the Irish President, nor the actor, nor the artist.

• “Her ‘Husband’ a Woman”. The Evening Independent, Oct 4, 1938. www.newspaperarchive.com/FlashViewer/FreeArticles.aspx?img=103258176
• Tom De Simone, Teresa Wang, Melissa Lopez, Diem Tran, Andy Sacher, Kersu Dalal, Justin Emerick. Lavender Los Angeles. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub, 2011: 69.