Honoring her/his memory - The strange case of Doctor James Barry

[packman]

Doctor who gained world-wide acknowledgment of his/her accomplishments




Really quite amazing:


https://imgur.com/a/YJhA9kR

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Honoring his memory would be to use "his" in your subject title.

[LeftInTX]

3. We don't know how he would have identified in today's society.

Would he have remained a woman if he had opportunities available to him as a woman?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. We know he went by he/him when he was alive. Why double-guess?

[LeftInTX]

6. Different time and place...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Should we second guess every historic figure this way?

Or accept how they described themselves when we talk about them?

[packman]

5. I don't see it that way - regardless of gender

He was a great surgeon
She was a great surgeon

Note the emphasis on "Surgeon"

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. He chose to live life as a man, so why second guess his choice?

[LeftInTX]

2. Very Interesting

We will never know if it was gender or career. There is a chance she was born with masculine tendencies, but made the decision to live as a man because of the commitment to medicine. Seriously, I think my sister would have done this, if she was born back then. We will never because it was so long ago.

However, he lived as a man for the rest of his life.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

Cashier was one of at least 250 soldiers who were assigned female at birth and enlisted as men to fight in the Civil War.[13][14]. Cashier lived as a male after the war and remained a male until he died. He was only a private, so there was no career reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Cashier

Even though it seems pretty outstanding that women were disguising themselves as men and going off to fight, it seems like actually they were accepted amongst their peers. This kind of loyalty to your fellow soldier in battle did in certain cases transcend gender. It’s pretty amazing; there was a lot of respect.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-in-the-civil-war-1402680/