#article's definitely been edited since i last Read It & Weep'd....

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thinking of how like reading albert cashier's (19th century trans man, fought in the union army) wikipedia article is devastating to me, in a good way, when like there's no The Diary Of, The Posthumously Discovered Letters Of Albert Cashier, it's all like fairly dry Facts about someone living a fairly ordinary life mostly Known by us all later via like, here's his stints at various jobs....and it's that like it's this life where several times due to injury / illness, his being trans was Known to any other people, and those people who, as is always the case in any matters of how we treat others, didn't Have to be respectful & simply mind their own business, but they did anyways, no known added factors, they Just Did. noting that despite hospitalization in the union army stint, he evaded detection(tm), but that it's then later on like this ordinary guy with an ordinary job, albert gets sick & a family he had meals with (a) takes care of him thus (b) becoming aware he's trans, and they: mind their own business about it. later, different job, totally different & even more removed party in the physician involved who realizes this person is trans, Also just minds their own business like aaugh!! the tragic downturn that when becoming "too" disabled for a Soldiers & Sailors Home (where friends & soldiers from his union army regiment visited, it says!! this with notes prior about like "other soldiers in the regiment noted he tended to keep to himself but he's not the only one in the world doing so huh" like waaah!!) being institutionalized & like of course in that environment that's where we get the violence of ppl learning someone's trans & this disabled person being forced into clothes they obviously even now would not choose for themself, or they'd already be wearing them!! but that then what Also happens is that even being this Extra vulnerable now and being trans being Known such that his military pension was investigated for fraud, Former Comrades vouched that this is the same person who fought with them, it was decided the pension payments should continue for life, they did, he was buried as albert cashier with full military honors i'm sooo ;;;m;;; like Cry Every Time (crying now. help) when it's just So like, people, as they do, don't Have to treat anyone decently, and obviously trans people are vulnerable & you're of course made to believe there weren't even 19th century trans people & everyone would Of Course summarily reject it if so b/c the internet wasn't around to mess things up, so that's an extra layer, but truly that timelessness anyways like. this person w/his identity so Lifelong that no "birth name" was known until someone handling his estate traced it back years later, this guy just out here, living his life, with nothing asserted to make him so "exceptional" as to "justify" Exceptions(tm) Made, with nothing about otherwise leveraged power or advantages or appeals....just various assorted people in his life all choosing to be respectful, even when they didn't Have to, just people coming through and Recognizing This Person. thus i sure do cry every time

#article's definitely been edited since i last Read It & Weep'd.... #cons ''what do you mean a 2nd larger headstone w/'both' names added! here i come w/a 3rd even larger ALBERT CASHIER solely headstone'' #pros ''what do you mean the 1 room house he was built in one period is now a historic site; it was a tool shed & chicken nursery & moved #around many times; what do you mean it became so dilapidated the local firefighters planned to burn it in a training exercise & then in #the '90s it was saved hours before they were going to do so & then it was moved again & used as a storage shed & Then volunteers restored #it & in 2011 it was dedicated!! & is now a historic site!!'' waauh ;;m;; #being trans & all; affecting. being a bit sensitive abt like ''and you're used to ppl's response to not Having to treat you with #basic respect being that And So They Do Not; being used to like [assume they Won't until proven otherwise]''....wwahh ;;mm;; #and just albert cashier Just A Trans Guy; Just Out Here....reaching out my hands #and these weeps wept thanks to [a figure in the play ''good men wanted'' & portrayed by trans actor asia kate dillon!] wahoo yippee