Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - Bruce Jenner and the Chevalier d'Eon

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An article caught my eye that reminds me that someone has always been there before.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/04/transge...

Whether it's Bruce Jenner or the Chevalier d'Eon matters not. Journalists will swarm like bees to honey ( I was going to type 'flies to..' but decided it wasn't polite).

In literature Georgette Heyer did it with 'The Masqueraders' in 1928 and established a tradition of Regency Transgender Romance that both both Tanya Allan (with 'Modern Masquerade') and HW Coyle (aka Nancy Cole) and I (with 'By Any Other Name') have followed.

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I saw it and decided

Angharad's picture

it was so revisionist that it was of little value. I'm wondering when the Guardian will be renamed the TG Times.

Angharad