New Musical About Irish Immigrant Soldier Albert Cashier-An Early Example of a Trans Soldier?

Here is Albert:

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Albert Cashier is all over the media right now, but almost all of it is because of a certain recent Tweet by the president. But he is mentioned in The Story Soldiers Wouldn't Tell by Thomas Lowry.
 
I do not think this is an example of a " trans" individual. Women became soldiers for adventure, freedom and to travel with husbands, brothers. Some never went back to being " women" due to having had a taste of freedom and rights as a man.
 
I do not think this is an example of a " trans" individual. Women became soldiers for adventure, freedom and to travel with husbands, brothers. Some never went back to being " women" due to having had a taste of freedom and rights as a man.
That is possible. The difference here is that even after Albert Cashier was discovered to have female genitalia, he still insisted he was a man.
 
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