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1973: United Transvestite and Transsexual Society

Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national organization that helped…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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1983: The Uninvited Dilemma and “Transgender”

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…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
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1966: Intro to Transsexual Phenomena, Harry Benjamin

The TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON Harry Benjamin, M.D Preface and Acknowledgement There is a challenge as well as a handicap in writing a book on a subject that is not yet covered in the medical literature.…

Healthcare and medicineHistory, archives, and memory
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Goodbye Sarah DePalma

In Texas, one of the trans community’s most important activists is about to die. By Phyllis Randolph Frye I sadly write that a long-time fighter for […]

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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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…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Proof: The Facts of Life vs the Cisgender Debate

Dave Chappelle’s cisgender enablers repeatedly assert that anti-trans “jokes” are “just jokes” and not an essential aspect of the dehumanization process. So, let us put […]

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