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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Alan L. Hart, Rachel Pollack, Charlotte Charke, Claude Cahun, Stephen Whittle, Martine Rothblatt, Veronique Renard, Estelle Asmodelle, Deirdre McCloskey, M. C. Brennan, Enza Anderson, Jackie Curtis, Arn Saba, Jan Morris, Peaches Christ, Christine Beatty, Maddie Blaustein, Joan Roughgarden, Patrick Califia, Leslie Feinberg, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Micha Cardenas, Nina Arsenault, Christina Kahrl, S. Bear Bergman, Miss Shangay Lily, Riki Wilchins, Kate Bornstein, Ina Fried, Jenny Randles, Mike Penner, Donna Sachet, Raphael Carter, Sister Roma, Lynn Breedlove, Raewyn Connell, Julia Serano, Meryn Cadell, Jennifer Diane Reitz, Jamison Green, Anderson Bigode Herzer, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, T Cooper, Alec Butler, Chiya Fujino, Roz Kaveney, Aaron Devor, Scott Turner Schofield, Max Wolf Valerio, Molly Cutpurse, Trish Salah, Diana Hignutt, Eli Clare, L. E. Leone. Excerpt: Alan L. Hart (October 4, 1890 - July 4, 1962) was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer and novelist. Hart was born a female named Alberta Lucille Hart. He was in 1917-18 one of the first female to male (FTM) transsexuals to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the United States, and lived the rest of his life as a man. He pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis detection, and helped implement TB screening programs that saved thousands of lives. Alan Lucille Hart was born October 4, 1890 in Halls Summit, Coffey County, Kansas to Albert L. Hart and Edna Hart (nee Bamford). When his father died of typhoid fever in 1892, his mother reverted to her maiden name and moved the family to Linn County, Oregon where she cared for her own mother during a period of sickness. When Hart was five years old his mother remarried, to Bill Barton, and the family moved to Edna's father's farm. Hart wrote later, in 1911, of hi...