Research
This site records Cristan Williams’ research on linguistic trends affecting the transgender community.
Curated and corpus-generated reading pathways will appear after the publication analysis is built.
125 matching records
So, prior to the 1990s, did the TS and non-TS groups work together to form a larger group in order to pursue “common social, economic, and political interests” (see definition of “community”)? I can unequivocally say YES. In…
Did you catch that inclusivity? If you didn’t let me quote the words written by a transsexual woman: “By the time you read this letter, cross-dressing should be legal in the City of Detroit. I, along with another…
Usage in English millions of reviewed print material, google Ngram: Click To Enlarge
1989: TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 54 She must have seen many changes since that day in 1952 when the headlines blared “GI Becomes Blonde Bombshell”, as have we all. Certainly, she, and we, saw the day pass when a…
Booklegger Press, 1973 (pbk) $7; TRANSVESTIA MAGAZINE (bimonthly) $5/issue, $30/yr.; SEXUAL AND GENDERAL IDENTITY (pamphlet.) All the above are written or edited by Virginia Prince, Ph.D. Order from Chevalier Publications, Box 36091, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Usage in English millions of reviewed print material, google Ngram: Click To Enlarge
aquel Welch (left), moviedom’s sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal’s transgendered “Myra Breckinridge”… -TV Guide, Sunday, April 26, 1970
1977 letter to trans man: "Transpeople" 22 August 1977 Dearist Heath, I’m a member of the MCC of the Resurrection in Houston and very happy to be a Christian sibling of Jeri and of Candie’s. Jeri asked me…
1975 usage of Transgenderist, Phyllis Frye This is perhaps the most tantalizing clue to where “transgenderist” may have originated. According to this 1975 letter, Frye first discovered the term in Sussie Collins’, magazine, Female Impersonator News. Sussie Collins…
Table by Phyllis Frye, 1976 Of Note: This table was developed years before Virginia Prince supposedly coined this term This is table puts the development of transgenderist sometime close to 1976 A conceptual taxonomy is evident in this…
Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types of different types of…
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…