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Dr. James Barry and Recognizing Trans Stories in the History of Science - Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology - Simon Fraser University
155 years ago today, 25 July 1865, James Miranda Barry, the first female doctor in western society, who lived as a male British officer, died.
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