The A always gives them away. The inverted V as an A or inverted V as an A with a slash or other graphic detail.
There were trannies long before. This is Matilda Jocelyn Gage - she was part of the Susan B Anthony (more Anthony than Susan) - womens suffrage movement. March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898. He even knew the hand signs back then.
she put them in the blue and white stripes