The stories of personal struggles with gender identity maybe the subject of much dialogue these days about what is broadly labeled ‘the trans community’, but out of public gaze, these  internal conflicts have been going on for centuries.

The Victorian era in the UK in the 19th Century was a time of enforcing highly moralistic ethics  in what is now considered an uptight sexually repressive age (it’s when homosexuality was made illegal).  Yet even then there was an underground movement of people experimenting with cross-dressing, and others coming to terms with their gender dysphoria.

A few of them were bold enough to have photographs taken of what was essentially a very private moment, and several of these have survived.

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