Reprise Thomas Baty

Thomas Baty
By Unknown – https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.22216/, Bain News Service, Library of Congress
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112277741

I have written previous posts on Thomas Baty (1869-1954), a gender radical who was born in Carlisle and who died in Japan. Baty was an international lawyer, a vegetarian, and an editor of the genderqueer journal, Urania. Writing books and articles under the female pseudonym, Irene Clyde, Baty campaigned against the binaries of biological sex, and of social gender conventions. Thomas Baty is an important non-binary pioneer in Cumbria’s LGBTQ heritage.

I was very pleased to find the informative article, Thomas Baty, gender critic, by Alice Millea, on the blog of the Bodleian Libraries. This article observes that Thomas Baty led a radically different life, with a queer identity, away from the official records of Baty’s Oxford and Cambridge university career and his qualifications in law. There are also images of documents relating to Thomas Baty, and a photo, from 1915-1920, which I have put at the top of this post, and of which I was previously unaware.

I encourage you to take a look.

Acknowledgements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baty

https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.22216

2 thoughts on “Reprise Thomas Baty

  1. ¿Do you have any sci-fi work of her in PDF? I’m currently working on her work and can’t find anything of her. Greetings from Colombia.

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