If you’re like most people, the image that comes to mind is most likely cowboys, bandits, lassos, and straight people doing very straight things.
But certainly, the idea of people of color dressing in clothing for the opposite gender doesn’t pop into the imagination of most individuals.
However, many would be surprised to hear that they’d be wrong to count transness out of what had made up America’s new frontier.
In fact, it was quite common. In his book Redressing America’s Frontier Past, historian Peter Boag argues just this. The book happened by accident.