Identified! FL - Clermont, WhtMale UP6030, 24-32, transgender, breast implants, Sep'88 Pamela Leigh Walton

[liminal-limitless]

I was used to "cross-dressers" and not people who had transitioned. Maybe there were more than we knew about?

From what I know about being trans back in the day, they used to basically make you cut off all contact with anyone who knew you prior to your transition in order to access hormones/surgeries, and fully start your life over in a new place, so that none of the new people you met would have any idea you were trans. So there definitely were more trans people than anyone knew about, but no one knew their histories because they categorically did not disclose to anyone. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I was not alive in the 70s)

 

[iamshadow21]

From what I know about being trans back in the day, they used to basically make you cut off all contact with anyone who knew you prior to your transition in order to access hormones/surgeries, and fully start your life over in a new place, so that none of the new people you met would have any idea you were trans. So there definitely were more trans people than anyone knew about, but no one knew their histories because they categorically did not disclose to anyone. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I was not alive in the 70s)

I'm not from that era either, but I have never heard of such a requirement. In fact, community amongst queer and trans people is and always has been a deeply important part of social and medical transition, from the earliest known official medical transitions in the early twentieth century onwards.

Some people who wanted to pass as cis and did not have supportive family and friends may have chosen that extreme on their own, but I've never heard of it as a requirement. It's not like getting out of rehab or prison.

MOO

 

[Susikatze]

I'm not from that era either, but I have never heard of such a requirement. In fact, community amongst queer and trans people is and always has been a deeply important part of social and medical transition, from the earliest known official medical transitions in the early twentieth century onwards.

Some people who wanted to pass as cis and did not have supportive family and friends may have chosen that extreme on their own, but I've never heard of it as a requirement. It's not like getting out of rehab or prison.

MOO

I agree. Most trans cases from the earliest like Lilli Elbe in the 1930s to the 1970s and 80s (eg Austrian skier Erik/a Schinegger), they did not deliberately cut contact with anyone (unless some family members or friends shunned them for their choice). Pamela may have chosen to move to a different state before or during her transition but it was never required.

jmoo