isolation in 1970s-1980s

Vanessa Edwards Foster

A Life of Advocacy

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Vanessa Edwards Foster describes realizing her transgender identity in the 1960s, discovering the word 'transsexual' through Renee Richards in 1976, attending Fantasia Fair in Provincetown in the early 1980s, and her initial transition attempts in Houston in the late 1980s and 1990s.