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I fail to see how someone could have got hormone replacement therapy in 1975. Being trans was probably considered a mental illness back then.
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This is only partly true. Yeah, there was a lot of "mental illness" and other nonacceptance, but transgender surgery (and related treatments) started to be well known in the mid-60s. The degree of acceptance depended very much on where you lived, and Europe was quite a bit ahead of the US. A person I went to college with in the early 70's went to Sweden to have her transition done. She lived there for 3-4 years and I didn't hear from her after that. (no, no chance she's Julie)
If I recall, she had to live as a woman for 2-3 years before that to make sure that's what she really wanted but she definitely had hormone treatments and cosmetic treatments like depilation before she left.
Minneapolis passed the first transgender rights ordinances in 1975.