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Della Aleksander

Della Aleksander (1923–2001) was a British teacher and campaigner for trans rights.^[1]^[2] She was a co-producer of an episode of the current affairs programme Open Door, which was the first to feature trans women. She was a member of fascist organisations, such as the League of St George.

Biography

Born in 1923,^[3] she went to Casablanca for gender alignment surgery in 1970.^[4] She described how it was not until she took hormone therapy that she felt herself to be transsexual.^[5] In 1971, she established Gender Research Association International Liaison (GRAIL).^[4]

Moonshadow 1973, 12: p. 5 reports on Open Door and Aleksander

Aleksander launched a magazine entitled Two for One, which addressed trans issues.^[6] She was a member of the Transsexual Liberation Group (TLG).^[2] In 1973, she co-produced and co-presented an episode of the current affairs programme Open Door, which gave four trans women from the TLG a platform to discuss National Health Service (NHS) care and societal attitudes to trans issues.^[2]^[4]^[7]^[8] The programme was first broadcast on 2 June 1973.^[8] The other women on the programme were Rachel Bowen, Jan Ford and Laura Palet.^[9] Aleksander wrote a comment piece for Gay News after the programme, myth-busting some trans issues.^[10] In 1974, she spoke at The First National TV TS Conference held at the University of Leeds.^[11]

Aleksander was associated with far-right politics. In 1995, Searchlight described her as "one of postwar Britain's best-known Mosleyites".^[1] She was a pupil of Roger Scruton's at Birkbeck College and was a member of the League of St George.^[12] As a member of the league, she met with white supremacist David Duke in 1978 in Belgium, along with other British fascists.^[13] She died in 2001.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Searchlight (235–246 ed.). Searchlight Publications. 1995.
^ ^a ^b ^c Caslin, Sam (15 January 2024). "Trans feminism and the women's liberation movement in Britain, c . 1970–1980". Gender & History. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12767. ISSN 0953-5233.
^ ^a ^b "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZF-5GFK : 27 October 2021), Della Joan S Aleksander, 2001.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ekins, Richard; King, Dave (23 October 2006). The Transgender Phenomenon. SAGE. pp. 3, 44. ISBN 978-1-84787-726-0.
^ Brierley, Harry (22 October 2013). Transvestism: A Handbook with Case Studies for Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Counsellors. Elsevier. pp. 14, 235. ISBN 978-1-4831-8219-3.
^ Saunders, Nicholas (1971). Alternative London. N. Saunders. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-9501628-1-2.
^ Megarry, Daniel (31 July 2018). "Watch a historical BBC documentary about trans women from 45 years ago". GAY TIMES. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^ ^a ^b Smith, Lydia (27 July 2018). "Trans women discussed trans rights on the BBC 45 years ago - here's what it looked like". PinkNews. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^ "BBC - History of the BBC, Open Door". BBC. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^ Aleksander, Della (1973). "Sex Change - From the Inside". Gay News. p. 8. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^ "GENDYS Journal - The First UK Transgender Conferences, 1974 and 1975". 12 May 2023. Archived from the original on 12 May 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
^ "Right Wheel". The Observer. 12 April 1983.
^ West, E. James (2 January 2021). "Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and British Tabloid Coverage of David Duke's 1978 Tour". Contemporary British History. 35 (1): 100–124. doi:10.1080/13619462.2020.1856081. ISSN 1361-9462.

External links

Transgender individuals: Charlotte Bach (Wellcome Collection, refers to a biography Aleksander wrote on Bach)
Scrapbook 07 (University of Victoria Libraries, includes clippings about Aleksander)
Theocratic Socialism is Here! (pamphlet by Aleksander)
Open Door: Transex Liberation Group, BBC Two, Monday 4 June 1973

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