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These references somehow disappeared from the content itself, and ended up orphaned (either their statements were rewritten, removed, combined, or...? Anyway, I'm adding them to the refs section on the article, and if you need to inline them, here they are.
<ref>At this point, Raj was still using his earlier chosen name, Nicholas (or Nick) Ghosh. Raj had chosen his new name in order to keep some distance from his professional persona as a trans advocate and activist and his personal life, but soon dropped the older ‘Nick Ghosh’ in favor of Rupert Raj. </ref>
<ref>For the importance of Raj’s work to other trans people in the 1970s and 1980s in the era before the internet, see J. Ari Kane-Demaios and Vern L. Bullough, ''Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths'' (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2006), 96 and Bonnie Bullough, ''Gender Blending'' (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997), 467.</ref>
<ref>Dallas Denny, ''Current Concepts in Transgender Identity'' (Routledge, 2013); Rupert Raj Papers Collection, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.</ref>
<ref>Nick Matte, “Rupert Raj and the Rise of Transsexual Consumer Activism in the 1980s,” in Dan Irving and Rupert Raj, eds., ''Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader'' (Toronto: Scholars’ Press, 2014), 33-43.</ref>
<ref>Brice D. Smith, “’Yours in Liberation’: Lou Sullivan and the Construction of FTM Identity,” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2010, pp. 248-257; Susan Stryker, “Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan,” in Kate Moore and Stephen Whittle, eds., ''Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle'' (London: Cassell, 1999), 62–82.</ref>
<ref>Jamison Green, ''Becoming A Visible Man'' (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), 55; correspondence between Rupert Raj and Charles John Austen/Johnny Bliss/Max/Romeo, 1985-89, Box 1, Rupert Raj Papers, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (hereafter CLGA); Susan Stryker, ''Transgender History'' (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008), 114; Mario Martino, ''Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography'' (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977).</ref>
