This reminds me I need to get back to that damned alternate history novel with magic in it and a lead transgender character, if only because YES we existed, goddamn. (She doesn't think of herself as "transgender", obviously, but she damn well thinks of herself as she.)

That doesn't mean that all the people classed as crossdressers in court records actually were.
Aaaaaaand sob, this, this right here, this is the reason I can't enjoy "a plucky young woman dresses as a boy to serve her country for great justice!" narratives. :(