The photo is a 1974 photo of Leslie Feinberg, from the FBI file on hir. I’ve written a piece on my interpretation of Transgender Warriors and Trans Liberation, but I don’t think it’s quite polished enough, so I’ll post it later. Instead, I’ll go over hir FBI file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-065/6282555/Batch0010/6282555_100-HQ-480756.PDF.
The FBI thought Feinberg could be violating the Communist Control Act, advocating the overthrow of the government, and engaging in rebellion. Needless to say, a hero to all of us. Feinberg was a member of the Workers World Party (the party still exists, but more notably PSL split from it), which apparently wasn’t openly advocating for the overthrow of the U.S, they just think it’s inevitable.
My favorite line? “captioned subject is believed to be a white female, who became male through some kind of sex change operation, and is possibly homosexual”. Some interesting language choice, and it’s an interesting snapshot into the evolution of Leslie’s identity.
The FBI found Leslie’s place of birth and birthdate from public school records. It’s a bit of an interesting look into all of the many places the FBI can get their information, along with how information like that was so much more patchwork before the digital age.
“Interview of subject is not being recommended because of the questionable nature of his sexuality”. Hmm, interesting.
It’s interesting how their investigation spanned multiple cities, from Kansas City to NYC to Bufffalo to Boston. It probably involved quite a few officers, though I’m sure it wasn’t the main focus for all of them.
There’s some interesting mention about changes in Leslie’s gender identity. Born a girl, for a time wearing a beard and mustache, then going back to “she”. I’m sure we all know, Feinberg’s gender didn’t stop evolving there.
“Subject reportedly contributes all extra money to WWP”, Leslie definitely was dedicated to the cause. Leslie doesn’t attend NYC WWP meetings, but the FBI doesn’t mention why.
The FBI isn’t immune to typoes, Leslie did some “criminal terspass” that garnered some attention.They wasted some time checking if Leslie was in Boston, but verified where Leslie in NYC lived by pretending to be a part of the Voter Registration Commission.
There’s a whole 43 pages of documents, all just from 1974-75. There’s plenty of interesting tidbits in there, so maybe check it out.
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It unironically does make me kinda sad to think that the cishet mind’s entire concept of sex is “stick thing in thing, saw in n out for a bit”. Like, there’s nothing wrong with insertive sex obviously but there can be so, so much more to it than that, and opening my mind up to all of the other goofy possibilities is one of those things that took it from being miserable to actually kinda fun for me. Sometimes you see a cishet person talkin bout something sexual and just… man, they’re missing out y’know…
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I’ve never experienced sex outside of smutty queer novels and webcomics and it’s M4M so almost all the sex devolves into “insert rod in designated rod insertion slot”.
Like first of all, half of these stories don’t have any prep, and a quarter of them don’t have any foreplay. It’s so boring and makes a lot of these stories feel so samey.
Also only like 3 out of the 100s of works I’ve read actually had a trans man. The rest are uwu femboys because why have trans rep when you can have femboy twink? Absolute fools.
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Oh man I am so over those types of m4m tropes frankly. It always felt weird to me when prep isn’t even mentioned, I think? Uncritical support to smutty queer novels and webcomics but we can do way better than this. Foreplay is half the fun :/
The lack of trans rep is apalling but wholly unsurprising. ABSOLUTE FOOLS.
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They are pretty foolish, foreplay and foolin’ around and being sensual is a huge thing to completely miss…
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cissies are incredibly vanilla this is true
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Tru, also doesn’t even have to be kink though it’s just like… there are other ways to do intimacy! Fuckin nerds! Lmao!
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what always comes to mind is that the only way to get a woman to cum is via penetration. like dude, come the fuck on. sex ed for guys needs to be taught by lesbians istg
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YES HOLY SHIT, obligatory “ask a man to find the clitoris” goes here. Very silly stuff.
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maybe sex ed for the fellas should be taught by a trans lesbian
could give some good tips about the tips 
they do be missing out