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About Joseph Lobdell
- Joseph Israel Lobdell (born in 1829) was a 19th-century person who was assigned female at birth and lived as a man for sixty years, and is usually regarded today as a transgender man.
- An 1877 New York Times article referred to Lobdell's life as "one of the most singular family histories ever recorded." Writer William Klaber wrote an historical novel, The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell, which was based on Lobdell's life.
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- Wise, which cast Lobdell as a "lesbian", was the first use of that word in an American publication.
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