To summarize its arguments, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) asserts that interpreting anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender students from harassment will somehow result in the erasure of women and girls as a protected class. This argument mirrors the…
And ad from a 1974 Drag magazine. Note the way in which sexual identity and gender identity are used: Drag Magazine, Vol 4, No 16, 1974 More about Drag Magazine: “DRAG is… the voice of Queens Liberation Front,…
“Sex change” is currently seen as a sensationalistic term used in the media. Dr. Rawson sent me the following article from 1691 which uses the term “sexes change” to refer to a change of sex: The Athenian Mercury,…
Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/11/1995, Page 1 Iowa City approves state’s 1st transgender protection By Brad Hahn News correspondent IOWA CITY — Iowa City will be the first city in the state and one of few in the nation…
Times Daily – Apr 24, 1993, page 2
The Item – Apr 21, 1993
Page 6 Transgender liberation: a movement whose time has come Leslie Feinberg, World View Forum, 1992
Google Books, IFGE, 1988
I’ve seen some internet dustups over the use of the #translivesmatter hashtag over the past few months. A subreddit asks if it’s okay to use the tag and produces discourse typical of what I’ve observed. Today, I witnessed…
Official Souvenir Program of the 1979 National March on Washington, Page 40 NOTES: This usage comes from Phyllis Frye. Here’s other Frye usages: 1976 usage 1977 usage, 1 1977 usage, 2 1978 usage 1979 usage