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Primary Sources

(1) Havelock Ellis, letter own Edith Lees (13th June, )

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Here are primary documents about the lives of persons identified at birth as female, who later lived and sometimes identified as male, now understood as "transgender."

Reprinted from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, ). Published originally on OutHistory in

Note by Jonathan Ned Katz added March 6, and revised August 8,

In regard to people in the past, it seems to me now that we best honor them (and our own present desire to understand them) by trying to discover the changing historical terms and concepts by which they understood themselves over their lifetimes. We also need to understand the changing historical terms and concepts by which others understood them over time.

It now also seems important to ask how all those terms and concepts expressed social judgments and were implicated in the power relations of individuals and classes, social systems, structures, and institutions.

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Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2, - July 8, ), known as Havelock Ellis, was a Britishphysician, psychologist, and social reformer. His work on human sexuality challenged Victoriantaboos on discussing the subject in public; it brought into the open details about not only normal heterosexual practices between husband and wife, but also such other practices as homosexuality and masturbation. His work greatly demystified sexual behavior for the general public in a society that enforced strict morality and taught that sexual behavior for women was for procreation only. Ellis championed the idea that sexual practices should be pleasurable for women as well as for men.

In his studies of human sexuality, Ellis opened the way for later researchers, including Alfred Kinsey whose work significantly affected attitudes toward sexuality in the United States. With the air of scientific respectability, Ellis and subsequent researchers led people to believe that they were missing out on pleasures others were experiencing. The work of Ellis played a significant role in transforming attitudes and practices relating to sex, and thereby in laying the foundation for the sexual revolution.

By exposing sexual practices in a value-free context, Ellis and other pioneers in the field of sexology