... at their home 2847 Dudley Ave, Bronx.

It's wild how they used to casually print people's addresses in the newspaper. What a different time.

Also, such a positive article! The newspaper celebrates Christine's transformation, even though it was published in 1952.

I like the bit about how her family and family friends agreed this was a good move when they heard about it. The article makes it sound like everyone was shocked but overall accepting. It's such an optimistic tone, like it's saying "look what science can do now! Isn't it wonderful?" And it is.

“Trans men are just men, but all women are property of men, therefore trans women are sneaky, deceitful predators trying to trick both innocent men and women.”

This is all just an extension of our fucked up patriarchal culture. It’s not that trans men are forgotten, it’s that their outward masculinity makes them irrelevant. They are no longer potential mates for the cishet males and therefore not “dangerous.”

Trans women, however, are a “problem” for those same reasons. Their femininity means they could be targeted as a potential mate for a cishet male, so to the patriarchal privileged they are by nature of existing “deceptive, duplicitous queers.” At the same time, any remaining masculinity in appearance or even the idea that a person could have a penis makes them a threat to other women, because other women are the property of other men. Hence the “trans women are just rapist men using drag to trap women in bathrooms” fallacy that the right loves so much.

I apologize for the window into that psychology. A shower may be warranted.

despite historical over-reporting of trans women compared to trans men, by the numbers there are roughly the same number of trans men as trans women. Trans women are just given more attention by the media and society, and can be more represented in online and IRL trans groups for various reasons.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, 32.7% (698,500) are transgender women, 34.2% (730,500) are transgender men, and 33.1% (707,100) are transgender nonbinary adults.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7906237/

Studies have consistently reported a greater prevalence of MTF than FTM.12 A recent meta-review found a ratio of ∼2:1.1 We had previously noted an increase over the past two decades in the percentage of FTM initiating sex hormone therapy compared with MTF.4 We have now reached the point wherein we are seeing at least as many FTM initiating sex hormone therapy as MTF.

trans girls in my experience are very vocal online, along with being constantly targeted in the news. so by virtue youll see more of us.

if you look up the numbers its about an even split though

One factor in this might be that it's traditionally more socially acceptable for a woman to adopt masculine habits than vice versa. There isn't as much social pressure to change how you identify if you're a tomboy.