Bill/Marion Edwards, gender rebel

On April 30, I missed out on mentioning here a very interesting centennial anniversary from south of the border, down Victoria way:

April 30, 1905 Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: Woman/man Bill Edwards (1881 - 1956), was arrested and charged with burglary of a Collingwood pub. Transvestite and/or transexual Edwards (real name (Marion Edwards) went on to public notoriety and wrote The Life and Adventures of Marion Bill Edwards, the Most Celebrated Man-Woman of Modern Times: Exciting Incidents, Strange Sensations, Told in the Graphic Manner by Herself ...

Read on at April 30 in the Book of Days.