A Clippings Scrapbook: The Trans Man Who Shaped Rowing and the Trailblazers We Bury Along The Way
In the 1930s, the scrappy young leader of the Oxford womens’ rowing team almost single-handedly propelled the women’s side of the sport into respectability. Nearly a hundred years later, the kind of man he would later become would be banned from the exact same team.
by Piper Bly
Sources:
Panel 1:
https://heartheboatsing.com/2025/02/12/dr-dillon-making-history-part-i/
https://heartheboatsing.com/2025/02/13/dr-dillon-making-history-part-ii-michael-dillon-revisited/
https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/life-here/library/blog/michael-dillon/
Panel 2:
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions, Michael Dillon
Panel 3:
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions, Michael Dillon
The First Man-Made Man, Pagan Kennedy
https://heartheboatsing.com/2025/02/13/dr-dillon-making-history-part-ii-michael-dillon-revisited/
Panel 4:
Self: A Study In Ethics And Endocrinology, Michael Dillon
Imji Getsul: An English Buddhist In A Tibetan Monastery, Lobzang Jivaka
The First Man-Made Man, Pagan Kennedy
Panel 5:
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions, Michael Dillon
Self: A Study In Ethics And Endocrinology, Michael Dillon
Panel 6:
https://worldrowing.com/2023/03/15/world-rowing-adopts-tighter-rules-for-transgender-women-athletes/
Piper Bly is a professional illustrator and underground cartoonist. When she’s not busy plowing away at her drawing board, singing dirges in the moonlight, or wandering throughout the United States, she can often be found tending to her ivies, frying up some biscuits, spending unreasonable hours in the gym, or floating above the Mississippi River at midnight, waiting for the tide to wrap her in its loving embrace and take her away. Her whereabouts are currently undisclosed. You, however, can find her at piperbly.com.