Transgenderist: First Usages from the 1970s

1978 McCary's Human Sexuality, 1978, page 337 Transgenderism is a relatively new term in the field of sexology, one meant to describe a variance falling at some point between transvestism and transsexualism. As such, it is a variance not yet accepted by all workers In the field. The male transgenderist identifies himself powerfully with the female gender. He may consistently cross-dress and assume the female role in his daily life, yet he does not wish to have the transsexual surgery that would transform him into a woman. 1979 The Frontiers of sex research, 1979, page 172 I was then free to live my life as I wanted having no more domestic or business responsibilities. I therefore crossed the gender line completely and I have lived as a woman full time ever since. I am therefore to be classified as a “transgenderist” now and no longer as an FP. But in

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