Lindsay Graham
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1,224 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Transgender people might take hormones to align their bodies with their gender identity or choose to undergo surgery, but some don't.
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Historically, though, the definition of transgender was less clear-cut.
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People who chose to undergo surgery were sometimes referred to as transsexual, a term many consider offensive today.
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And transvestite was sometimes applied to people such as straight men who wore women's clothing, or cross dressers, who might not use that term today.
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But their stories help point to how transgender people began to build a social identity within the broader LGBTQ movement.
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Yeah.
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By the late 1940s, Louise Lawrence had begun building her own informal network for transgender people in Northern California.
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Assigned male at birth, Lawrence had been dressing in women's clothing for most of her life, but was only too aware of the perils she faced in doing so.
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Municipal laws throughout California and across the country made it illegal for people to appear in public in a dress not belonging to his or her sex.
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Lawrence would place ads in magazines and newspapers, asking for those who'd been arrested for public cross dressing to write letters to her.
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These kinds of correspondence networks were able to help people with problems involving birth certificates, state documents, and resources for transition related medical care.
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Lawrence also gave lectures on gender nonconformity at the University of California at San Francisco.
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Through these lectures, she met another activist named Virginia Prince.
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Through Lawrence's networks, Prince helped distribute Transvestia, the first U.S.
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publication devoted to transgender issues.
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Though the newsletter folded after only a couple of issues, Prince would later revive it as a magazine for self described heterosexual transvestit.
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She would also go on to form the first national cross dressing network, the Foundation for Full Personality Expression, or FPE, in nineteen sixty two.
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These efforts brought together new communities, but they still served a narrow population that reflected Prince's own biases.
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She personally limited membership in the FPE to white married male cross dressers and stressed that Transvestia was for so called sexually normal people who were simply seeking self expression.
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She took pains to distance cross dressing from homosexuality, which she saw as deviant behavior.
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