Emily Skidmore > Quotes

“For example, in 1881, Chicago passed an ordinance that read, “Any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, or an improper person to be allowed in or on the streets, highways, thoroughfares, or public places in this city, shall not therein or thereon expose himself to public view, under the penalty of a fine of $1 for each offense.”
― Emily Skidmore, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century