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In this post I review the rhetoric employed by transsexuals who have refused to use “transgender” to describe their experience while claiming that Virginia Prince coined the term to only refer to people like herself: heterosexual crossdressers who…
What follows is an exchange between Virginia Prince and Tere Fredrickson, co-organizer (along with the primary organizer, Phyllis Frye, VP of GCTC) of the ICTLEP Conference. Dear Linda and Tere: Sept 1, 1991 Thanks for sending me the…
Gender Euphoria, January 1992, Vol VI, No 1 November 12, 1991 Dear Editor, It was with a great deal of interest that I read Virginia Prince’s letter and your response in the November issue of GE. As a…
FI News, 1975 SALMACIS OFFER LECTURES FRANCES L. DOWELL, President, Salmacis Society Salmacis, the egalitarian Feminist Social Society, has announced a series of eight educational lectures on Transgenderism, to run until August 21. The lectures will be held…
On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught, 1988, page 28
Official Souvenir Program of the 1979 National March on Washington, Page 40 NOTES: This usage comes from Phyllis Frye. Here’s other Frye usages: 1976 usage 1977 usage, 1 1977 usage, 2 1978 usage 1979 usage
I’ve seen some internet dustups over the use of the #translivesmatter hashtag over the past few months. A subreddit asks if it’s okay to use the tag and produces discourse typical of what I’ve observed. Today, I witnessed…
K.J. Rawson on NPR talking about the history of trans terminology: