1991: Accusation of Stealing Virginia Prince’s Word by ‘Incorrigible Texans’

Gender Euphoria, January 1992, Vol VI, No 1 November 12, 1991 Dear Editor, It was with a great deal of interest that I read Virginia Prince’s letter and your response in the November issue of GE. As a self-taught writer and a cross-dresser, two of my favorite forms of expression were stimulated. While I agree with your assertion that male and female are indeed properly used (in the current context of the language as defined by dictionaries) as both nouns and adjectives (sorry Godmother), I believe Virginia’s point is still valid to a degree. The degree being the distinction, as you referenced in your concurrence, between biological sex and cultural gender. Part of our Godmother’s crusade is to sever the assumed connection between sex (as a biological noun) from gender (a cultural noun). Further, she is the pioneer in severing the assumed connection that if you cross a gender classification,

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