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This site records Cristan Williams’ research on linguistic trends affecting the transgender community.
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The Sun, Apr. 26, 1975 “The gimmick that brought him fame and fortune four years ago was the trans-gender name, the mascara, the bizarre goings-on on stage.”
"transgender pronouns" Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23, 1975 Ey has a word for it By Judie Black AS WOMEN HAVE grown freer, the English language has grown more tangled: What’s a chairperson and who is a Ms.? But help…
1970 Iowa TV Guide "Transgendered"
Some Things Worry You About World The story of the Miami housewife who, it turned out, had once been a man, was a shocker. But not just because it involved sex surgery. After all, if science can correct…
Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth organization in the United…
"Trans-sexualists" - Midnight, Vol 13, No 21, 5/19/63 They think like women and like to think of themselves as women. They feel like women and react like women. They want to be women and ought to be women,…
The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: SOC I (1979) Cover Page STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric…
Crosspost from my Ehipassiko blog, posted here for research value Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even put into words how…
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"Transgenderize" - Rockford Institute Chronicles, Vol 23, 1999 (p. 41) Demonstrate the ability to opheliate (ie, transgenderize) comprehensively one soliloquy from Hamlet. Demonstrate the ability to devise 16 different interpretations of an instructional leaflet for operating a tea…
The term “transsesso” is the modern-day Italian term for transgender and transsexual. Here’s this term being used in a 1898 Latin language book. I’m noting this 1800s usage to make the point that sticking “trans” in front of…
"Trans-sexual" Miracles, 1947 (ch. 16) The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering…