“Something Amazing About Harry”

On this page of mugshots from the 1920s, I found this one:

Under which is the caption:

When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with wife murder he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared.

There are photos of her/him in another photo array, this one of female criminals. S/he’s #13.

(“Femme Fatales” seems a misnomer, as that term is usually used to describe a certain type of female criminal.)

Passing Pat Dye

Skip the Makeup has a good blog post up about Pat Dye, the 31 year old who has allegedly pursued and seduced a 15 year old girl.

That’s the huge problem: not the gender, but the age gap. Impersonating a minor to have sex with a minor is criminal.

Being trans or clocked for the gender you’re not is not a crime, or immoral, or anything like that.

So maybe let’s keep the two things entirely separate, okay?