<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>So, you think it is a challenge to be transgender today. Can you imagine being transgender back in 1918?</div><div><br></div>Courtesy of today’s (February 6, 2018) Spokesman-Review.<div><br></div><div>———————————————-</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 class="f2 f1-l serif mt0 mb2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, times, serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-size: 3rem; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">100 years ago in San Francisco: Dr. Alan Hart, doctor who interned in Lewiston, outed as transgender</h1></div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Alan Hart was a brilliant and successful doctor, working as an intern at a San Francisco Hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Then a former university classmate recognized him – as Dr. Lucille Hart.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s how Dr. Lucille Hart’s “adventure in man’s attire” was discovered.</div><div><br></div><div>Hart went to the medical school at the University of Oregon where Hart was the only female medical student.</div><div><br></div><div>“She was a pretty blonde, and was noted among those who knew her as an extremist in some things,” said a member of her class. “She dressed often in a very mannish style, wearing particularly masculine hats and shoes and frequently tight skirts. She walked with a noticeable mannish stride.”</div><div><br></div><div>When starting working in the field, Hart apparently “feared she could not make a success as a woman physician and decided it would be easier to make her mark in the medical world in masculine attire.”</div><div><br></div><div>Hart applied for an internship in Lewiston, dressed as a man, and got the position.</div><div><br></div><div>Then Hart landed an internship at a San Francisco hospital. All went well until another doctor recognized Hart from medical school.</div><div><br></div><div>“The masculine interns at the hospital are quite upset over the discovery, and declared she successfully and completely deceived them for months.”</div><div><br></div><div>That’s how the newspaper story ends, but Dr. Hart’s story continued. The doctor opened a practice in Montana under the now-legal name of Dr. Alan Hart. Hart became one of the first to undergo sex reassignment. He went on to have an acclaimed career as a radiologist, tuberculosis researcher and professor.</div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————-<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>