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First person to ever be called a lesbian was a man. Reports indicate radfems are malding as we speak.

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Gluck (13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a gender-nonconforming & Jewish painter, who rejected any forename or prefix (such as "Miss" or "Mr") also using the names Peter and Hig.

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C. Jacob Hale a trans man and philosophy professor, and Jake in drag as “Miss Angelika,” 1999, photographed by Mariette Pathy Allen (source) // And his bio in the book "GenderQueer : voices from beyond the sexual binary" (which you can read here)

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Shout out to the 1st CE Jewish philosopher that invented trans men lol

(From The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader by Anna Clark, page 44)

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The image in the photo most likely comes from the San Francisco Pride parade in 1997. The man in the middle with the blue shirt and dark jacket is also likely author Jamison Green, but with how grainy the image is, it's hard to tell.

[Full archive here]

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A few surgical excerpts from Loren Cameron's book Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, now "properly" censored for Tumblr's sensibilities. These images are purely educational in nature.

If you'd like to view the original photos and Cameron's full book, click the link here to head to our archive.

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Metoidioplasty: Subject 1

"I have to wear two pairs of trunks at the swimming pool because I don't think the bulge in my pants is big enough. It's really obvious when my clothing is wet. Without a larger phallus, the testicle implants alone just don't give the look I want. I try to appreciate what I have since my surgery, but it's hard when I live in a society that associates penis size with a man's worth.

I'm not convinced that most women are concerned with the size of a man's penis (even a guy with a small dick can do a lot of stuff), but I can't even ejaculate, much less penetrate! It isolates and handicaps me in an invisible sort of way. I'm really angry about it!

I don't always think I'm inadequate though. My last lover didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, I think she enjoyed not having to use a diaphragm or other contraceptives. She acted as though my size was normal. I guess it was good enough for her because she loved me.

If I were pressured to call it an enlarged clitoris, I would have to admit that's what it is. It just can't function exactly like a penis. I wish I could delude myself, but I can't."

Metoidioplasty: Subject 2

"I feel better having my genitals on the outside of my body. That protrusion is important: it's symbolic of the expression of myself as a man in the world. Really, on a day-to-day basis, it doesn't make that much difference. I mean, I don't wear tight pants, so there's no bulge that shows, and I don't care about that anyway. But in terms of presenting myself to a potential partner, having genitalia that look some-what like they're supposed to helps me feel confident.

Although I am very conscious of being different, I feel sure of myself as a lover. In my fantasies, I might imagine having a larger penis, but in reality, it doesn't matter. My surgery is good enough. I have sexual function, and now I have a body that satisfies my needs: it reflects my own masculinity."

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1930s news about a trans woman: Well I'll be curfuffled young Corlotta Jhonson has transformed herself from a dandy into a dame and what a Bombshell she's become. And How!

1930s news about trans men: Wanted dead or alive this young lady who started wearing trousers, the tomboy terror known only as The Crust is wanted for snorting the President's personal stash of opium and has slain nearly every senate member in a pistol duel.

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June transguyarchive calendar (happy Pride!)

Did you know the archive also has an event calendar??? It's full of (mostly) events geared toward trans guys! Dating, theatre, drag king bingo, community support, and much more!

As of now, they're all based in NYC because that's where I live, but if you have events in your local area that you think should be added, please send me a DM on here or on the website!!!

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WOW!!! It's only been a few days and I am absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of positive interaction this account has been getting. I know 60 followers isn't a 'lot', but it's a lot to me

I started this archive/blog originally just as a place to store and share my research, but I can already tell that it's going to mean a lot more than that

I've been working on this archive project for a loooong time so every time I see someone reblog a post or follow this blog I silently thank each and every one of y'all :,)

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Article from Smith's Weekly, an Australian-based newspaper on Peter Alexander, a trans man from New Zealand. The article is dated to November 20th, 1937.

This article is incredibly sensationalist and obviously very transphobic. It offers the perspective of Alexander's fiancee's mother as she attempts to appeal to the newspaper to bring her daughter home. According to the mother, the police won't do anything to 'help' her, which is interesting.

You can access the article in full by clicking here.

Otherwise, you may recognize Peter Alexander from this interview he gave to an Australian news broadcast, which has been shared around the internet quite a few times.

[Full archive here]

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Photos of trans men/masc athletes from Original Plumbing, Issue No. 10 "The Jock Issue", published 2012.

Original Plumbing was a quarterly theme-based print publication dedicated to trans male culture. Created by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, Original Plumbing was published for ten years in twenty issues between 2009 and 2019. Each magazine issue covered a wide variety of topics including events and pressing issues to the transmasculine community.

You can read most of the issues for free by clicking here.

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historical transmascs when you open a bag of sour gummy worms:

James Barry/Billy Tipton/Alexander Alexandrov/Lou Alcott/Ljuba Prenner/Piotr Odmieniec Włast/Amelio Robles Ávila/Alan L. Hart/Lobzang Jivaka (Michael Dillon)

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Article by Billy Lane, the first trans man to win Seattle Mr. Leather - FTM Newsletter (1998)

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Profile: Lou Sullivan

Lou Graydon Sullivan was born on June 16th, 1951 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Beloved within his community of transsexual men, he was the first public trans man to identify as homosexual. Also, he was a prolific writer and activist, who often spoke at medical conventions regarding transsexual health, despite not being a doctor himself (Milks). Lou’s brother, Flame Sullivan, commented that “...they usually put him at the end of the conference, so he could blow everybody away… He knew what he was talking about. More than some of these doctors did.”

Among many other published works, Sullivan is most well-known for his book, Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, which he first published in 1980, which has since been revised and updated twice. He is also known for his work We Both Laughed in Pleasure – a selection of his diary entries, published posthumously. Sullivan’s main goal was to further the understanding of transsexual men and to push for better research into FTM medical procedures. At this time, when a trans* person medically transitioned, it was thought that they did so to live as a heterosexual. Sullivan, being openly gay, challenged that by being in a relationship with a cisgender man for eleven years before leaving him to pursue medical transition.

Read the complete profile over on the Trans Guy Archive!

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Profile: Lou Sullivan

Lou Graydon Sullivan was born on June 16th, 1951 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Beloved within his community of transsexual men, he was the first public trans man to identify as homosexual. Also, he was a prolific writer and activist, who often spoke at medical conventions regarding transsexual health, despite not being a doctor himself (Milks). Lou’s brother, Flame Sullivan, commented that “...they usually put him at the end of the conference, so he could blow everybody away… He knew what he was talking about. More than some of these doctors did.”

Among many other published works, Sullivan is most well-known for his book, Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, which he first published in 1980, which has since been revised and updated twice. He is also known for his work We Both Laughed in Pleasure – a selection of his diary entries, published posthumously. Sullivan’s main goal was to further the understanding of transsexual men and to push for better research into FTM medical procedures. At this time, when a trans* person medically transitioned, it was thought that they did so to live as a heterosexual. Sullivan, being openly gay, challenged that by being in a relationship with a cisgender man for eleven years before leaving him to pursue medical transition.

Read the complete profile over on the Trans Guy Archive!

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Trans Guy Archive welcome post

Welcome to the Trans Guy Archive! This is a collaborative history archive for one of the most forgotten groups in the LGBTQ+ community.

In the fight for trans* justice and liberation, trans men/mascs have been largely ignored, both in society at large and within the LGBTQ+ community. Trans history largely skews in favor of trans women/femmes -- for better or for worse -- leaving many along the masculine spectrum feeling lost and alienated, even in their own community. This archive aims to serve as an informational and social space for all to learn about the beauty, vitality, and strength of trans men/masculine figures throughout the centuries. This is for all transsexual and transgender men, demiboys, butches, those who are "kinda guys", lesboys, transmascs, multigender, and anyone who falls along the masculine spectrum.

Trans guys have always been here, and we're not going anywhere.

As historians, it's important to try and not retroactively apply modern-day labels to historical figures. Terms like "transgender" or even "transsexual" are remarkably new phrases in the vast scheme of history, and people have used a wide variety of phrases to try and define their existence. For people who lived before the coining of these terms, this archive uses "trans" as a verb, rather than a noun/adjective. Regardless of how an individual may have identified, they are still trans-ing (transitioning) their gender to a more masculine state. The identities explored on this archive will largely not fit neatly into modern-day expectations of identity and gender. Everyone is invited to keep an open mind.

Furthermore, it is the goal of the Trans Guy Archive to present topics and theory that is oftentimes dense and hard to understand in an engaging and easier to understand context -- but without erasing the nuance present in topics by oversimplifying them. Too often, professional academics purposefully write in over-complicated ways that make higher education inaccessible to the average person who does not have an engaged background in historical subjects. 

By using a blend of formal and informal language throughout the archive, the TGA hopes to ease the fear of studying complex topics and provide the average person a casual look into the workings of historians.

TLDR -- You have no excuse to say "I ain't reading all that" ;-)

On top of the archive, this space also aims to act as a sort of "one stop shop" for trans guys around the country and world to find educational and academic content about themselves, written by people just like them. In the Event Calendar, you may find a party in your city to make friends; in the Trans Guy Glossary, you can learn the definition of that word you've been seeing everywhere, and so on.

The primary focus of the TGA will continue to be a record of trans guy history, but given how difficult it is for trans guys to find community and information - even within the wider queer community - we thought it'd be a good idea to have a single, organized space for everything you wanted to know.

You can access the website by clicking here! (may be a bit janky on mobile)