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This site records Cristan Williams’ research on linguistic trends affecting the transgender community.
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Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or expression in order to fight for common purpose: Looking Toward…
Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national organization that helped give rise to a…
”… Virginia Prince, a male crossdresser… Calling himself “transgender” rather than a “crossdresser” or a “transvestite” was an attempt to remove himself and other similar “transgenders” from the negative cultural baggage and the concurrent approbation that is linked…
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this nuanced and subjective experience…
‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’, ‘femiphile’, or ‘androgyne’. It is an identifiable group of people within society as a whole. Because of the great…
The TV-TS Tapestry, 1984 Consider the context with which the terms “transgender” and “transgender community” are used in this 1984 trans community article: The ‘Origins’ and ‘Cures’ for Transgender Behavior by Roger E. Peo, PhD Just about every…
TV-TS Tapestry Statement, 1984 TV TS TAPESTRY STATEMENT We (‘we’ meaning the Tapestry, other TV-TS publications, and TV-TS organizations both non-profit and commercial) are in business to serve our people. ‘Our people’ include members of the TV-TS Community…
Dr. Diamond is an early pioneer in trans research. Outside of the trans community, he is best known for exposing the “John/Joan” case in which Dr. Money (who allegedly physically attacked Dr. Diamond years before) faked his research…
“Transgender deviance” p 110 This does not include the genuinely girlhood- oriented boy (see p. 144 and p. 146) who is passing through the teens bound for adult transgender deviance. “Transgender research” p 484 In some cases symptoms…
"Trans-sexed" - The Unforgotten Prisoner, Page 373 Schooled in the second decade, a conscientious, unimaginative platoon-sergeant trans-sexed and purified, she would have waited there, pencil poised to record my momentous utterance, until the…
Sartain's Magazine, V 8, N 2, March 1851 "Trans-sex" - page 174 Laura beheld him with an eye black and flashing as a storm-cloud; and, rising from the sofa, her tall and symmetrical figure strained to its utmost…
"Transgenderous" The Rice Thrasher, V 64 N 19, 11/11/76 Transsexual to Speak Bobby Bennet and Phyllis Frye will appear this Friday at 3:30 in Sewell Hall 301 to present their conflicting opinions about transsexuality. Bennett is planning to…