![]() Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. ![]() Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. ![]()
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