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TIL about Eugene Falleni, an Italian-born transgender man who lived in Australia under the name Harry Leo Crawford, was convicted in 1917 of murdering his wife, Annie Birkett. He had lived for years passing as a man, working in male-dominated jobs, and even remarrying.

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