”… 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…
‘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…
What follows is a speech given by Wendi Danielle Pierce at the 1989 Texas T-Party held in San Antonio. Pierce was the chairperson of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) Board of Directors, and – at the…
Sept 1, 1991 Dear Linda and Tere: Thanks for sending me the issues of Gender Euphoria. I feel something of a proprietary interest in it because of its title. It was named such after I made a point…
For those of you who are not very familiar with Tere Fredrickson, she was a significant part of a linguistic tipping point which occurred in the late 80s/early 90s. She ran an inclusive group, was involved with the…
The young adult: development after adolescence, 1980, page 73 …Throughout the adolescent period there is progressive experimentation and initiation into direct sexual contact. Cross-cultural data (Money & Ehrhardt, 1972) indicate that for the great majority of people sexual…
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…
The Uninvited Dilemma was thought of as one of the most important trans books of its time. The Uninvited Dilemma, has been quoted and referenced countless times in trans books, newsletters and magazines. In the book, Gender reversals…
aquel Welch (left), moviedom’s sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal’s transgendered “Myra Breckinridge”… -TV Guide, Sunday, April 26, 1970
1977 letter to trans man: "Transpeople" 22 August 1977 Dearist Heath, I’m a member of the MCC of the Resurrection in Houston and very happy to be a Christian sibling of Jeri and of Candie’s. Jeri asked me…