K (189?–?) Soviet pioneer. From Kazan, Tartarstan, USSR, K was diagnosed as a ‘transvestite’ in 1937.

She was given permission by the People’s Court to wear female clothing, her identity papers were changed to her female name, and her name was removed from the military recruitment rolls.

She was featured in a 1957 gynaecology textbook.

M.G. Serdiukov. Sudebnaia ginekologiia I sudebnoi akusherstvo. Moscow: Meditsina 1957: 47-8.
Dan Healey. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: fig 24.

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    18 days ago

    trans lit professor asked me yesterday “is that lenin on your shirt” (it was, in fact, lenin on my shirt)

    i am very curious about how that conversation would go with her honestly

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      I’ve got a Fidel poster that often gets this reaction lol

      I do have a go-to little thought terminating explanation for it for when lib family ask (it’s just the true backstory of where I got it but it’s not “well fidel is a hero” either)