Transgender Transfusion: Before ‘OITNB,’ There Was the ‘Casa’
Transgender is a movement with a history, and throughout that history its citizens have identified with many names: transvestite, drag queen, drag king, crossdresser, transsexual, shemale, sissy…the list goes on. Twenty years ago, when I created the world’s first crossdressing academy, Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want To Be Girls, the word transgender was relatively new to the lexicon. Now it is the accepted umbrella term that covers a vast spectrum.
