Sara Dircxdochter (died after 1550) was a Dutch transvestite.
Dircxdochter was sentenced, on 4 March 1550, to the pillory and to four years banishment, for posing as a man under the name Salomon Dircxzoon. She was exposed when spending the night in a hostel for men, dressed as a man. Her case is notable as one of the first confirmed cases of a woman being sentenced and tried for posing as a man in Europe.
There was a previous case in France in 1535,Rudolf Dekker & Lotte van de Pol (1995). Kvinnor i manskläder. En avvikande tradition. Europa 1500-1800. Stockholm: Östlings Bokförlag Symposion. but most of the other cases of cross-dressing women in the Middle Ages are unconfirmed.
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