tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post6011760892778396360..comments2024-03-25T14:26:47.657-04:00Comments on A Gender Variance Who's Who: Trans London in the 1970s - Part 1: 1971-5Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-1713856724425277752022-01-29T18:38:49.202-05:002022-01-29T18:38:49.202-05:00Under the year 1974 you have stated that I emigrat...Under the year 1974 you have stated that I emigrated to the Netherlands because that country recognized trans women and the UK did not. That statement is not true, I arrived in the Netherlands from Berlin after a legal case to return a Dutch citizen to her country, and at that time so called trans women were not recognized in the Netherlands. I left the UK in 1970 and had been traveling around Afghanistan and the middle east. In 1974 it was illegal for a man to dress as a woman in the Netherlands, and if caught by the police the person was arrested, taken to a police station stripped of their clothes and taken home in a police car in a blanket. This was a sort of shaming of a person in front of their neighbours, as most men who did this did it secretly. When the gender center started at the Free University hospital in Amsterdam by Prof Louis Gooren Dr Aschemann and Jos Megens, their patients would travel by taxi to the hospital to avoid arrest by the police, and the surgeons who did the first surgical operations were arrested and charged with physically mutilating a human body. This went on until the law was amended. Rachel Horshamhttp://www.dwarfempire.comnoreply@blogger.com