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Lucy Hicks Anderson

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1886 - 1954

Occupation

Activist

Description

Transgender activist who lived her life as a woman since aged fifteen. Was discovered as male during a review of all employees of her brothel in California in 1945. Law enforcement voided her marriage and charged them both with perjury. Given a probationary sentence, only to be charged again for perjury when it was discovered she was receiving her late husband's allotment cheques. Found guilty and served a prison term.

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