Virginia Prince is sometimes given credit for coining all variations/meanings of “transgender” because she wrote the term “transgenderal” once in 1969… but she never again used the term. It seems that it isn’t until 1980 that the term…
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1974: Transies Tenderloin Transies Protest Thirty-three drag queens were evicted from their apartments in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, triggering protests from TVs and TSs who live in that area. The mid-day demonstration protested police harassment and…
“ some of the terminology used at the conference would take some twenty years to become widespread. As far as we are aware, the first use of the term trans.people (sic) was when Julia Tonner referred to “the…
This is a review when of early news and how it reported on Jorgensen. I’ve found that Jorgensen does not seem to have been referred to as a “transsexual” in newsprint during the first several years that she…
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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.
The earliest usage of the term, “TS Separatist” I can find comes from a 1994 newsletter article. The context in which it is used references only those MTF transsexuals who have had vaginoplasty and wish to separate themselves…
From issue #6 of FI News: Recently, a new term has arisen to classify a type of crossdresser who until recently has been lumped into the general category of transvestite or even transexual. The term is transgenderist, and…