I keep trying to know you're psychic, but you keep editing the awareness out of my head. So I keep vaguely suspecting, but can never really be sure.

I made you say that...

"you don't have to be a furry to be a transvestite" - I may refer you to an early pioneer in this curious endeavor in this country: Edward Hyde, royal governor of New York during the early 1700s. His first cousin was Queen Anne, who I suspect sent him to NY on the principle that there should only be one queen at a time in England, and partly because Cousin Ed looked better in a big floofy dress than she did (which was probably true).. Aside from his habit of dressing in women's clothing and walking the streets lisping at sailors, he doesn't seem to have distinguished himself in any way that I am aware of.

We can go back a lot further than the early 18th. century. The emperor Elagabalus, roughly 220 AD, was a notorious cross-dresser. It almost certainly was one of the reasons he was murdered -- along with his bizzare religious beliefs that he insisted on imposing on Roman public life, incapacity to rule, and plain ambition on the part of his assassin. It doubt it started with him either. Abraham must have known transvestites, as, I suspect, did Gilgamesh.

One can almost picture a primitive Cro Magnon circa 42,500 BC, smearing a bit of bear grease on his face where only women of the tribe are supposed to, and his fellow warriors laughing... then clubbing him over the head for being a "goomp pahk".