The Real Story of the Female Hunter of Delaware County   BY
Diane Anderson-Minshall  August 02 2012 5:00 AM ET  Pictured:
Bambi Lobdell  Historically transgender people have been
collapsed into homosexual categories, but you argue that we need
to examine the people classified as extreme female inverts
historically for hidden transgender men like Lobdell. Is there a
movement in academia to do this? Are you familiar with other
historical figures that should be rethought? There are only a
few people trying to reclaim transgender men from lesbian or
passing woman history. Lack of written accounts where the
subjects speak for themselves makes it very difficult to make
the case that the female-bodied person identified as a man.
Where there are any reports at all, they are written by
authorities from a dominant, heterosexist, cissexist [see
definition below] perspective, using terms dominant groups have
created to frame people who do not conform to the traditionally
gendered heterosexist imperative as unnatural, abn