HER PRONOUN WAS “YANKEE DOODLE DANDY”: From back when transgender men were … uh … men: On this day in 1760, Deborah Sampson was born. During the Revolution, she disguised herself as a man and joined the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment under the name “Robert Shurtleff.”

Did she see combat? You bet your sweet bippy she saw combat. And when she was shot in the left thigh, she extracted the pistol ball herself in order to avoid the possibility that she would be found out. (She was later “outed” as a woman when she fell ill, but received an honorable discharge.)

Can a woman like that return to her petticoats after the war? Well … yeah … why the heck not? She married Benjamin Gannet and had three children—Earl, Mary, and Patience.