Talk: Meet the Transcestors – Celebrating Jenny Gray, Edwardian Trans Activist
Book onlineRichard Bliss delivers a lunchtime talk about the extraordinary life of working class trans activist, Jenny Gray.
Dates
Tuesday 28 July
Visitor information
Times
12.30–1pm
Price
Free, donations welcome
Location
Carpathia Room, ground floor
Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
Booking information
Advance online booking essential. A donation ticket is available
Suitable for ages 16+.
About
Before other 20th century pioneers such as Roberta Cowell, April Ashley, and Michael Dillon; Jenny Gray was a working class trans activist.
Jenny made her home a safe space for other trans and non-binary people, she refused to be fetishised or shamed by a trans-phobic medical system, and she challenged the legal system in a way that would seem exceptional even today.
In this talk, Richard Bliss will introduce the aspects of Jenny’s life that have been gathered from Tyne & Wear Archives and other archives around the UK, and imagine what life might have been like for Jenny, her husband James and other trans-people living at the start of the 20th century.
