The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

To me anyone presenting herself as female, is a female (TS/TV or anything else). Anyone presenting himself as male is a male (idem), anyone presenting him/herself as anything inbetween is considered hermafrodite/androgyn. It's a question of social role and a litlle tact, not genotype and/or fenotype. What would you call a XY-woman, an XX-man or a biological hermafrodite (they do exist)? A woman who has undergone hysterectomy or a castrated man ?

Here are verses that in spite / Of myself I needs must write, / Like the wine that oozes first / When the unsqueezed grapes have burst.

In the indenture, sealed by the parties at Gloucester on 2 October, Simon Milburn, a Herefordshire esquire, was belast and wᵗholdyn for terme of his lyf wᵗ and toward the said Duc and his son Edward Erl of Marche, promitting & binding hym by the fayteh of his body & by this present endentures to do trew, diligen & faithfull seruice vn to the said Duc & Erle and wᵗ thaym for to be ayenst all erthly criatures of what estate, dondicion or preeminence so euer thay be.