Hello and welcome to Queer is Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Alice.

I'm Eli.

And today we're talking about the US Civil War soldier, Albert Cashier.

Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Banerang Bunurang people of the Koolen

Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay my respects

to their elders past and present.

They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.

We have some content warnings for this episode.

This episode will include discussions of transphobia, including forcible

outing and detransition, historical sexism, medical abelism, including the use of ablest terms

in quotes, the misgendering of trans people in quotes, discussions of the American civil war,

mentions of slavery and periodical racism, and the use of outdated language for African-American

people in one quote, and discussions of dementia. I'd also like to specifically mention the use of outdated language for African-American people in one quote.

And discussions of dementia.

I'd also like to specifically mention the use of dead names in this episode.

Ordinarily, we would never use a trans person's dead name on this podcast.

In the case of Albert, I will be mentioning several female names that he may have gone by.

There are two reasons I found this necessary.

Firstly, they're a fair bit of uncertainty about Albert's early life, and I found I wasn't able to discuss the possibilities of his biography without delineating the different names found in different sources. Secondly, I think

there is a meaningful discussion to be had about what names are used for Albert in more modern

conversations in life of this uncertainty. And again, I don't think it would be possible for us to have that conversation while avoiding

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