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

My name is Eli.

I'm Alice.

I'm Irene.

And today we're talking about the life and trial of early 20th century Australian trans man Harry Crawford.

I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari Wai Rang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast

and pay respect to their elders past and present.

We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.

We have some content warnings before we start

this episode. We will be discussing multiple incidents of murder, manslaughter and accidental death,

including death by car accident and the death of an infant by natural causes. We will also

discuss mistreatment of human remains, violence, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation. The episode

also includes discussion of modern and contemporary transphobia, including loss

of employment, rejection by family members, outing, pathologization, and misgendering in quotes.

We will also mention sex and sexual violence, police misconduct, classism in the legal system,

verbal abuse and harassment, alcohol abuse and involuntary committal.

So obviously this is a pretty heavy episode as our episodes go. So if any of that sounds like

something that you don't want to listen to or you just don't want to listen to a heavier

episode in tone overall, please feel free to skip this episode and listen to one of our other

episodes. In 1913, Harry Crawford married a woman

named Annie Burkett. In 1917, Annie disappeared and at the same time, the body of a woman was

found in a park near where Annie and Harry lived, burnt so badly as to be unidentifiable. As we will

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