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    “Trans”

    Oct 29, 2020 2 minutes

    “I, Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs / Perceived the scene and foretold the rest,” T.S. Eliot wrote in The W (1922). This was uncharitable to Tiresias, but prophetic for the rest of us. Eight years later, in 1930, Lili Elbe of Germany became the first woman to undergo male-to-female

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