Maria van Antwerpen

Maria van Antwerpen (1719 – 1781) was a Dutch soldier and seamstress who dressed as a man to enlist in the Dutch States Army. van Antwerpen was possibly a trans man. He is considered by the Dutch historians Rudolf Dekker and L.J.M. van de Pol to be a transsexual woman. van Antwerpen married twice to women. Two biographies were published about van Antwerpen while still alive, one by Franciscus Lievens Kersteman in 1751.

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