True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award

The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s

In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman named Gertrude Fuller. What drew national attention to his seemingly unremarkable life was that he was revealed to be anatomically female. Dubois fit so well within the small community that the townspeople only ...