1992: Bigenderal Introduction and Rejection

Rebuttal to Prince, February 1992 Bigenderal Introduction: TERMINOLOGY FOR THE CROSSDRESSING COMMUNITY by Virginia Prince The matter of labels in our community has come up many times and seems to be divided between those who want some sort of definition and those who say, “we don’t need labels, we are just people”. I submit to the latter group that categorization is the way the human mind works and as such descriptive terms are necessary. It would be rather ridiculous not to distinguish between a banana and an orange just because they are both “fruit”. Likewise it is necessary to distinguish between races, nations, kinds of people or occupations. But the battle has largely been over what designation should be applied to our group. The term “transvestite” came into disfavor because it has a medical and thus “abnormal” and pejorative flavor to it. Thus “crossdresser” or “CD” ( which is simply

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