Continued from Part 1
Now some lessor known trans persons.
Nural Huda
On the 16 May, The Civil & Military Gazette reported that Nurjahan Bibi of a small village in Bihar, north of Calcutta, a housewife who had been married for more than three years reported that she felt pain in her spinal cord for four or five days and and then all her feminine features disappeared. This was confirmed by two doctors. The husband quickly disappeared. Bibi became Nural Huda and was looking for work as a man.
Roy Williams
The Birmingham Daily Post, 15 March, tells us of divorce case with a different outcome from that of the Dollings. In this case the adulterous wife also charged her husband who wanted to be a woman with cruelty and this time was granted a decree nisi on that basis. The husband's female name is not reported.
Jean Sabots
On the 4 June, The Daily Herald told of another divorce case where a trans woman, a 44-year-old father of five, having obtained a decree nisi against the wife on grounds of adultery, applied to the Labour Exchange for an employment card in her female name, so that she can afford to resume taking female hormones.
Sebastian Companys
The Sunday People, 12 October, told us of Sebastian Companys, born in Spain, served in the French Foreign Legion and working as strip-tease girl in Auxerre, Burgundy. She has had some surgery, but obstinate doctors refuse the necessary certifications.
Trans girl in Gateshead-on-Tyne
The town council was helping a seven-year old to transition.
