I was at the airport one day I thought I’d play with attempting to represent some information about the history and social context of transgender terminology in a graph: – Click graph to enlarge – So, what I…
This is a community flier from 1976. Note the attempt to find some taxonomy which encompasses all people of non-cisgender history, experience or expression. Also, note the proto-transgender symbology. "Note: Transvestite, as used herein, is collective for transsexuals,…
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…
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…
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…
1975 usage of Transgenderist, Phyllis Frye This is perhaps the most tantalizing clue to where “transgenderist” may have originated. According to this 1975 letter, Frye first discovered the term in Sussie Collins’, magazine, Female Impersonator News. Sussie Collins…
Table by Phyllis Frye, 1976 Of Note: This table was developed years before Virginia Prince supposedly coined this term This is table puts the development of transgenderist sometime close to 1976 A conceptual taxonomy is evident in this…
Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types of different types of…
Rebuttal to Prince, February 1992 Bigenderal Introduction: TERMINOLOGY FOR THE CROSSDRESSING COMMUNITY by Virginia Prince The matter of labels in our community has come up many times and seems to be divided between those who want some sort…
The pamphlet from the first ICTLEP: 1992 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSGENDER LAW AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY This Conference is for attorneys and other legal professionals; for employment, personnel, and other human resources professionals; and for members of the…