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Hidden Figures: Lucy Hicks Anderson #BlackHERstoryMonth 16/28

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Channel: Sensei Aishitemasu · 2017 · Entertainment

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Lucy Hicks Anderson was born biologically male and spent nearly sixty years living as a woman in California- what would now be known as transgender. Born in 1886 in Waddy, Kentucky, she began insisting to her mother that she was a girl as a child, wearing dresses, and calling herself 'Lucy.' When her mother consulted a doctor, he advised her to raise Lucy as a girl. At 20, she moved West, settling in Pecos, Texas, where she worked as a domestic in a hotel, and in 1920 she married her first husband, Clarence Hicks, and moved to Oxnard, California. Though she initially worked as a domestic there, as well, she eventually saved up enough money to buy and operate her own brothel. Lucy divorced Hicks in 1929 and later married her second husband, Reuben Anderson, who was a soldier in the U.S. Army. 

When it was discovered that she was biologically male, the Ventura County District Attorney sued her for perjury (claiming she lied on her marriage license). She was convicted and placed on probation, which was later broken when the United States government sued Hicks for receiving allotment checks as the wife of a member of the army. Both Lucy and her husband were found guilty and sentenced to prison, then barred from returning to Oxnard after release. Lucy Hicks Anderson lived out the rest of her life in Los Angeles. She died in 1954. 

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Links: 

'Learn the Inspiring True Story of Black Trans Pioneer Lucy Hicks Anderson:'
http://www.essence.com/2016/03/01/learn-inspiring-true-story-black-trans-pioneer-lucy-hicks-anderson

'Anderson, Lucy Hicks [Tobias Lawson] (1886-1954):'
http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/anderson-lucy-hicks-1886-1954

'5 Black Trans Women Who Paved the Way:'
http://www.masstpc.org/5-who-paved-the-way/

Lucy Hicks Anderson:
http://forge-forward.org/2016/02/15/bthm-lucy-hicks-anderson/

'LUCY HICKS ANDERSON: BIOLOGICALLY MALE, LIVED AS A WOMAN, AND JAILED FOR DEFRAUDING GOVERNMENT:'
https://blackthen.com/lucy-hicks-anderson-biologically-male-lived-as-a-woman-and-jailed-for-defrauding-government/

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