[…] they do not acknowledge that acting in female roles in the theatre could possibly have been one of the few socially borderline accepted ways for some trans-identified people to live their lives, they do not allow for the obvious that trans-identified males might have sought-out social roles in which a castration was part of the social right of passage or they may have been drawn to a life that included wearing female attire as a social or professional requirement in a socially accepted way.