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If you like this kinds of stuff, a similar story: Milunka Savic. A Serbian war heroine who was discovered to be female after being wounded in battle. Although not accounted as LGBT, she just wanted to fight...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milunka_Savi%C4%87

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Reminds me of this Irishwoman who joined the British army in the late 1600s and managed to remain disguised as a man until she was receiving treatment after being wounded -- but only for the second time!:

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

It's so amazing that it's hard to believe. For example:

"She was so successful at passing herself off as a man that a prostitute claimed she was the father of her child. Rather than give proof that this was impossible, [she] paid child support to the woman."

What does LGBT have to do with wanting to fight?

One is very likely to be LGBT if s/he is a transvestite.

Transvestism is a unique behavioral pathology that has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

I'm not sure wearing the wrong clothes is much of a pathology.

I’m not even sure the clothes are wrong..

Its classified as a pathology of gender dysphoria in the APA DSM-5.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology#Psychopathology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria#Diagnosis

Nope, cross-dressing alone does not consitute gender dysphoria.

That is not what I claimed and it is not what the Wikipedia article claims.

Nothing. I just said that it looks like her incentive to present herself as a male is to be able to join the army. There is no mentioning of her still portraying a man after she was exposed.

Well, Poles actually have a history like that as well. You can read about Emilia Plater

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater

One mor story like that: Nadezhda Durova. She was a russian cavalry officer in the Napoleonic wars. She wrote an autobiography then.

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

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