The National Insider Jan 1964. “The mid-century tabloid obsession with transsexuals and gender reassignment and how several trans burlesque performers achieved widespread fame. Those old tabloid covers serve to contradict people who claim that trans issues are a product of the new millennium, or that “it didn’t happen in their day.” They just didn’t notice. Transexual entertainers regularly made headlines in tabloids that sold millions of issues per month.”