Back in 1972, a group of transsexuals and transvestites, meeting regularly in Notting Hill, in London, as a branch of the new Gay Liberation Front, wrote a piece for the activist pamphlet Lesbian Come Together. As many as 60,000 people in Britain were taking cross-sex hormones, they stated; more wanted to do so but were refused by doctors. They described the stigma to which trans people were subjected by the medical profession
