This site is the most comprehensive on the web devoted to trans history and biography. Well over 1800 persons worthy of note, both famous and obscure, are discussed in detail, and many more are mentioned in passing.

There is a detailed Index arranged by vocation, doctor, activist group etc. There is also a Place Index arranged by City etc. This is still evolving.

In addition to this most articles have one or more labels at the bottom. Click one to go to similar persons. There is a full list of labels at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar. There is also a search box at the top left. Enjoy exploring!

Other Trans History sites


Gender Variance Who's Who

Essays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.  Well over 1800 persons worthy of note, both famous and obscure, are discussed in detail, and many more are mentioned in passing.






Digital Transgender Archive (DTA)


An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than twenty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections.

www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net



TransasCity History Page


Features separate pages on selected trans women and female impersonators, and - really useful - a newsbank of over 400 news clippings 1951-94.

http://transascity.org/history.




Vidensbanken om kønsidentitet

A Danish encyclopedia on things trans, compiled by Tina Thranesen.

www.transviden.dk




WikiPink


A GLBT wiki from an Italian perspective

www.wikipink.org




Transfofa em Blog


Eduarda Alice Santos' trans news-aggregation.   The best that there was: 2005-2017.

http://transfofa.blogspot.com





Trans Mirror


A short-lived, 2008-9, blog on trans biography that featured some interesting stories.

http://transmirror.blogspot.com




Kay Brown's Transsexual, Transgender, and Intersex History...


The classic first tran shistory site, preserved by the web archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050319052606fw_/http://www.transhistory.org/history/index.html




Yvonne Sinclair of the London TV/TS Group


Trans life in London in the 1970s and 1980s.





Ephilie's TransChristians


For those who are both trans and Christian.  





Femmes au Masculin


Christine Bard's survey of French masculine women

https://musea.fr/s/musea/page/masculine-women




The International Journal of Transgenderism


The first 6 volumes, 1997 - 2002, were, and are, available to the public.   Subsequent volumes went behind a pay wall.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070505034642/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/index.htm




Gendys Conference Archive


The Gendys Conferences were held every two years for over a decade from 1990 until 2004.  This website preserves some of the presentations as an historical record.

www.gender.org.uk/conf/index.htm




The Weimar project


Translations of  1920s  German trans magazines





Lili Elbe Digital Archive


The source documents with English translations





Especially good on the German pioneers.





Leah Tigers

A series of  thoughful long essays.





Bethany Karsten

Focusing on literature, but a lot of history as well.





Yana Kirey-Sitnikova

History of trans in Russia, in both Russian and English.





Jules Gill-Peterson

Author of  Histories of the Transgender Child and A Short History of Trans Misogyny.





Alex Sharpe

Legal historian.  Author of Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law and Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law.





Susan Stryker

Best known for her mistitled Transgender History, most valuable for her Interview Transcripts. 




Brett Genny Beemyn

Lots of  publications





Observatoire des Transidentités

A French site from the 2010s re trans studies by trans persons.






Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive

Actually the Ms Bob Davis Archive.  Emphasis on the performative. 






TransAdvocate


Based in Houston, a combined research-advocacy site.




Melbourne Queer History 


A city history.






Ottawa Trans History





A brief history of Trans Community of New England

The Boston and New England story that includes IFGE and Tapestry magazine.




Boston Trans History  





MNOPEDIA

The Trans/Queer section of the Minnesota encyclopedia.






 

Transsexual Women's Successes


Lynn Conway's pioneering site re trans women.

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/TSsuccesses.html




Successful TransMen


 Lynn Conway's pioneering site re trans men.

 http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/TransMen.html




Gallery of Goddesses

One of the earliest online sites that featured out trans women.   It was curated by an Australian known only as David, a trans-attracted men.   The site lasted 1998-2001.  It was also one of the first sites to expose fake-transgender persons. The site was destroyed when GeoCities was re-organised in 2001.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991013142859/http://geocities.com/WestHollywood/Park/9200/index2.htm

Warning: the web archive pages seem to be somehow corrupted.




Queer Music Heritage 


Lots of trans musicians.    No single entry point specifically for trans, but start at

www.queermusicheritage.com/sep2009.html




OutHistory


Mainly a LGB site, but excellent research on Jennie June/Ralph Werther/Mowry Saben

and also a  Transgender History Timeline: https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/trans-timeline/timeline




Queer Story Files


Includes a fair number of trans stories.

http://queerstoryfiles.blogspot.ca/search/label/transgender 



Dragstavaganza





Vicki Rene's Drag Queens, Crossdressers and Trans




David de Alba's Female Impersonator Interviews





A HISTORY OF BALLROOM: DOCUMENTING THE ERA OF BALLROOM (1972-1990)


The New York ball scene, the houses, voguing etc
 



1 comment:

  1. Unknown31/3/21 21:58

    Hi! I'm Elza and I'm from Brazil!

    I just wanted to comment here saying how nice it is that blogs and sites like this exist. It's really important that we have access to trans history. Keep up the good work and thank you so much!

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