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TESTIMONY OF DR. W.P. MCGWIRE, PAGE 3
Please help me transcribe this testimony word-for-word: – Click page to for detail – — so — as to — in your opinion that — — — her clothes. —. It did. Dr. —…
Testimony of Dr. W.P. McGwire, Page 2
Please help me transcribe this testimony: – Click page to for detail – just like a — — causes — of — hermaphroditism. I regard her as — of a male than a female.…
Testimony of Dr. W.P. McGwire, Page 1
Please help me transcribe this testimony: – Click page to for detail – Dr. WP McGuire Have practiced medicine in the Payne family a good deal for the last several years and have been…
Trans Community: Sense of Community?
I’ve set up a survey for the trans community using the “Sense of Community Index-2” (SCI-2) research tool. For some time I’ve wanted to do this survey with the trans community. Take the survey…
Christine Jorgensen: Transgender Woman
Christine Jorgensen was a famous transsexual woman who preferred to be referred to as being a transgender woman: 1979: Newsday article reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press, 1979 The article reads: As a young…
Trans Terms History and Context
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…
1885: Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men
. The Boston Daily Globe: Tues., Sept. 15, 1885 WINCHESTER’S SENSATION Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men. The Romance of "Rebecca," Afterward "Lawrence," H Payne. A Father’s Efforts to Secure Possession of His…
TRANSGENDER: 1974, “TRANSGENDER Research”
As many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. Clinical Sexuality 1974, 3rd Edition The…
Transgender: 1974, “Transgender Surgery”
As many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. A Practical Handbook of Psychiatry 1974…
5/5/1926 LAWRENCE PAYNE’s Death Cert
Certificate of Death Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics State Board of Health #11956 Place of Death Country of: Fredrick Magisterial District of: Stonewall Registration District No: 3416 Registered No: 2 Full Name…
5/1/1884 Lawrence Register Payne, most of whose life
The Daily Gazette: Fort Wayne, Ind, Thursday Morning, May 1, 1884 Lawrence Register Payne, most of whose life has been passed as a woman in Frederick county, Virginia, under the name of Rebecca Payne,…
9/3/1880: Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To
THE DAILY JOURNAL: FREEPOBT, ILLINOIS,. SEPTEMBER 3, 188o. PAINFUL EXPOSURE. A VIRGINIA SENSATION HAS A STARTLING SEQUEL Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To Be Masculines —The Adventures of the Feminines of the Payne…
1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance
While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. –…
1988: Transgender = Transsexual
Transgender individuals are likely to show a high incidence of depression, psychosomatic complaints, and chemical dependency. This appears in clinical experience with more than 300 transsexuals. – Journal of Social Work & Human Sexuality…
1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience
Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100
1988:Transgender People = Transsexual People
Anchorage Daily News reprint of LA Times, Aug. 1, 1988 Biological women, thought to account for only 6 percent of the nation’s transsexual population in the early 1950s, now make up around 25 percent…
1986: Transgender Services = Transsexual Services
But the sex change process is gradual, and Marcia stands to undergo a lengthy period of androgyny before she will fully pass in society as a woman. These are lonely and difficult days for…
1982: Transgenderism = Transgenderist
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. – McCary’s Human Sexuality, 1982, Page 410
1982: Transgender = Cross-Gender
I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share. – Philosophy, Children, and the Family,…
1981: Transgender Identity
A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28
1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender
Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated…
1976: Transvestite = Transgender Community
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.
Identity VS Reality VS Definitions
If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as…
“Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?
n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore how a variant of the word…
1981: Trans-Gender = Across Genders
The Spirit of the Earth, Jerome Perlinski 1st edition, 1981 Evolution of the Trans-Gender Process
1986: Transgenderism ≠ Transsexualism; GID = Umbrella Term
From The Language of Sex A to Z by Dr. Robert M. Goldenson and Kenneth N. Anderson: Transgenderism: a gender identity disorder in which a person strongly identifies with the opposite sex and may…
1982: Transgender Phenomena
Third paragraph reads: “Much of the theorizing of the nineteenth century viewed homosexuality as either willful sin or a biologically determined sickness, with the common explanation being that homosexuals were another sex, different from…
Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review
“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community; a term…
1988: Transgender = Transsexuals & Crossdressers
Publication Date: 1988 Also published in the Journal of Social Work & Human Sexuality: 1988 Crossdressers are transgender Transsexuals are transgender individuals who need a social network Transsexuals are transgender
1982: Transgenders = Transsexuals, Christine Jorgensen
‘Transgender’ FRESNO (AP)—Christine Jorgensen says her highly publicized sex change operation three decades age gave her the identity she needed to find “happiness and contentment.” Ms. Jorgensen, now 56, said in a speech to…
1885: Transgender Person Discovered After Death
A MALE-WOMAN. — A strange sort of person named Sophia Gibons, died a few days ago [in] Cambridge out in Guernsey County Ohio. It was always supposed that the person in question was a…
1973: Transsex in Glam Rock
Gabriel used to appear in a fox mask and a red dress, which evolved from the “Foxtrot” LP. This brings up the subject of glam rock in England and its bisexuality. “That was just…
1971: Transsex added to Dictionary
“Jesus freak, imploit, sexism, transsex, stun gun…” “Transsex was invented by Christine Jorgensen.” Desexegration is something you’ll see more of, now that the Red Chinese are represented in the UN and their families are…
1977: Trans-sexed
She withdrew from medical practice in order to concentrate on playing tennis as “my vehicle” for proving that a trans-sexed male “is a woman in every conceivable way” and not “psychotic or freaky.”
1915: Trans-sexed
Lived Six Years in Trans-Sexed Attire: Girl Buried in Her “First Black Suit” (United Press) Chicago, Feb. 9. — Ida Weinstein, 26 years old, was buried yesterday in the first dress to clothe her…
1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966
Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July 1966. The program, first of its kind…
Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community
Crosspost from my Ehipassiko blog, posted here for research value Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even…
Old German Trans Terms
So many of our trans terms seem to have originated in the German Sexology movement of the late 1800/early 1900s. Here’s a list of German trans terms I’m currently researching. Cisvestitische, Cisvestiten, Cisvestit Geschlechtsüebergäenge…
1999: Transgenderize
Demonstrate the ability to opheliate (ie, transgenderize) comprehensively one soliloquy from Hamlet. Demonstrate the ability to devise 16 different interpretations of an instructional leaflet for operating a tea kettle.
1898: Transsesso = Transgender/Transsexual, Currently
The term “transsesso” is the modern-day Italian term for transgender and transsexual. Here’s this term being used in a 1898 Latin language book. I’m noting this 1800s usage to make the point that sticking…
1947: “Trans-sexual” Usage by C. S. Lewis
The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternatives…
90.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language
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Transsexer: 2000, Transsexor: 1990 and Transsexism: 1977
First currently known derivations of the following terms… Transsexer: Transsexor: Transsexism:
1966: Trans-Sex = Cross-Sex
Trans-Sex Surgery at Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (AP) – Trans-sexual surgery has been completed on the first patient in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s gender research program. Dr. Donald W. Hastings announced yesterday. The…
1908: Trans-sexual = Cross-sexual
So far as we have been able to observe, either in the historic or individual sense, a strong, deep, pure trans-sexual love which is the theoretic and, to a large degree, the actual basis…
1907 Transsexual = Cross-Gender
Prior to this post, it was asserted that the term “transsexual” was first used in 1949 (transexual and transsexualis) and the German version, (transsexualismus) was first used in 1923. Now, it seems that this…
HBIDGA (WPATH) SOC I
The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric persons…
1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”
Some Things Worry You About World The story of the Miami housewife who, it turned out, had once been a man, was a shocker. But not just because it involved sex surgery. After all,…
Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”
Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth…
1966: Trans-sexualists = Transsexuals
They think like women and like to think of themselves as women. They feel like women and react like women. They want to be women and ought to be women, but by the caprice…
1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender
Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23, 1975 Ey has a word for it By Judie Black AS WOMEN HAVE grown freer, the English language has grown more tangled: What’s a chairperson and who is a Ms.?…
1970: Transgendered = Transsexual
1970 Iowa TV Guide "Transgendered"
1984: Transgender Community = Modern Transgender Community
The TV-TS Tapestry, 1984 Consider the context with which the terms “transgender” and “transgender community” are used in this 1984 trans community article: The ‘Origins’ and ‘Cures’ for Transgender Behavior by Roger E. Peo,…
1984: TV/TS TAPESTRY STATEMENT
TV TS TAPESTRY STATEMENT We (‘we’ meaning the Tapestry, other TV-TS publications, and TV-TS organizations both non-profit and commercial) are in business to serve our people. ‘Our people’ include members of the TV-TS Community…
Interview with Dr. Milton Diamond
Dr. Diamond is an early pioneer in trans research. Outside of the trans community, he is best known for exposing the “John/Joan” case in which Dr. Money (who allegedly physically attacked Dr. Diamond years…
1974: Transgender as Umbrella Term
This does not include the genuinely girlhood- oriented boy (see p. 144 and p. 146) who is passing through the teens bound for adult transgender deviance. In some cases symptoms merge with those of…
1933: Trans-sexed
Schooled in the second decade, a conscientious, unimaginative platoon-sergeant trans-sexed and purified, she would have waited there, pencil poised to record my momentous utterance, until the…
1851: Trans-sex = Trans-gender
Laura beheld him with an eye black and flashing as a storm-cloud; and, rising from the sofa, her tall and symmetrical figure strained to its utmost height, and enlarged by emotion, her expressive features…
1976: Transgenderous
Transsexual to Speak Bobby Bennet and Phyllis Frye will appear this Friday at 3:30 in Sewell Hall 301 to present their conflicting opinions about transsexuality. Bennett is planning to undergo an operation at Hermann…
1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender, Alice Cooper
The Sun, Apr. 26, 1975 “The gimmick that brought him fame and fortune four years ago was the trans-gender name, the mascara, the bizarre goings-on on stage.”
Transgender Colonization: Evidence-Based Review
[box]”… 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…
1917 – 1999: “Ambisextrous” Review
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this…
1984: State of Trans Terms
‘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.…
1968: Harry Benjamin Intro to Jorgensen Bio
FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY HARRY BENJAMIN, M.D. Noted American endocrinologist “As a physician and, I hope, a medical man of understanding, I salute the courage of Christine Jorgensen and the warm humanity of the…
1991: Letter from Virginia Prince
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…
Filisa Vistima’s Diary
Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman from Seattle. She volunteered at the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC). On March 6, 1993 Filisa took her own life. What you’re about to read are her…
Tere Fredrickson Interview
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,…
1989: Texas T-Party Keynote Address
[box]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,…
1972: Transsexual Action Organization Call for Community
Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or expression in order to fight for…
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…
1980: Transgender Orientation
…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 intercourse first occurs during this…
Transgenderist: First Usages from the 1970s
1978 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 not yet…
1956: D.O. Cauldwell’s “Transvestism… Men in Female Dress”
TRANSVESTISM …men female dress edited by DAVID O. CAULDWELL Sc.D., M.D. Dr. Cauldwell is a distinguished physician and sexologist who is Medical Advisor to Sexology magazine and Editor of its Question and Answer Department.…
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…
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.…
1976: Transgenderist
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 trans experiences: “regular transvestite or femmiphile”; class two—those…
1992: Bigenderal Introduction and Rejection
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 of…
1992: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy
The pamphlet from the first ICTLEP: 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…
1980: The Return of Transgenderal
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…
1970: Transgendered
[R]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: 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 if I…
1975: Transgenderist
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 was the…
1976: Transgenderist; Trans Classification Table
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 graph;…
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…
1984: GenderNet is born
GGA INTRODUCES GENDERNET: GENDERNET GenderNet – The FIRST and ONLY electronic communications network solely for the TV, TS, spouse, provider and business support professional! GenderNet went “on the air” January 1, 1984 at 6…
1974: Trans-People and Transgender as Umbrella Terms
“[In 1974] 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…
Christine Jorgensen: When Did She Become a Transsexual?
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…
1970s Review of TS/TV Unity
So, prior to the 1990s, did the TS and non-TS groups work together to form a larger group in order to pursue “common social, economic, and political interests” (see definition of “community”)? I can…
1973: Transvestite & Transsexual Activism
Did you catch that inclusivity? If you didn’t let me quote the words written by a transsexual woman: “By the time you read this letter, cross-dressing should be legal in the City of Detroit.…
Transgenderism Usage Chart: 1970 – 2000
Usage in English millions of reviewed print material, google Ngram: Click To Enlarge
1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen
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 specific…
1973: “Genderal” by Virginia Prince
(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.
Transgenderist Usage Chart: 1970 – 2000
Usage in English millions of reviewed print material, google Ngram: Click To Enlarge
Wikipedia Rewrite: Transgender
I was asked to rewrite the origin narrative for the “transgender” entry on wikipedia. The current entry is full of demonstrable falsehoods which propagate ignorance concerning the history of this term. Chief among the…
Meta Analysis: Social Anxiety Levels in MTF Transgender People
Of the two studies that I reviewed which quantify this issue [1,2] a 55% average was found. Within the general American population, similar types of anxiety are experienced by only 6.8% [3] of the…
TS Separatism: 1994 & 2002
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…
And we’re back
Apparently my research blog has been down for a few weeks. I just learned about it when I went to add some content today. After an hour of fiddling with my database, I tracked…
“The Transgenderist Explained” – An Early 1975 Article
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…
1965: Transgenderism = Transsexualism
From Sexual Hygiene and Pathology, 1965 by John F. Oliven, MD: From the section, “Primary Transvestism,” which is part of chapter 20, Sexual Deviations: Transsexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and…
1975: Transgenderism = Umbrella Term
Transgenderism Series The Salmacis Society is sponsoring a series of eight meetings on transgenderism beginning on May 15 and continuing every other Thursday t through August 21. They will be held in conjunction with…
1991: Transgender = Transsexual
HAGERSTOWN (AP) – Four years ago, Debbie Reefer could not have played on a women’s softball team because she was a man. “I was a typical beer-drinking, head-busting type of guy,” said Keefer, the…
1993: Transgendered = Umbrella Term
Times Daily – Apr 24, 1993, page 2
1993: Transgender = Umbrella Term
The Item – Apr 21, 1993
1992: Transgender = Umbrella Term
Page 6 Transgender liberation: a movement whose time has come Leslie Feinberg, World View Forum, 1992
1988: Transgender = Umbrella Term
Google Books, IFGE, 1988
1989: Transgender = Transsexual
Christian Ethics by Norman L. Geisler, page 175
1989: Transgender = Umbrella Term
The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping by Dennis M Dailey, page 73
1969: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op
“Here I draw on dissertation research by Robert Hill at the University of Michigan which he very generously shared with me. Hill’s research into early transvestite publications at the Kinsey Institute (and especially Prince’s…
1978: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op
Open Forum John Money, Ph.D., Moderator The Johns Hopkins University, Schoo] of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21205 Before becoming involved in the sex role area, I was a linguist. I would like to share three…
1978: Transgender = Cross-Sex
In the play he has chosen to explore his theory, a 60-year-old woman pursues a 16-year-old boy. His “transgender realization” of Oscar Wilde’s Salome will be performed for the next two weekends at Star…
1977: Transgenderal = Transsexual
We note the special case of “transsexuals,” a term which interestingly enough is being shifted to “transgenderal” in that literature. This citation references the following sentence: Sex is the biological dichotomy between female and…
1993: Texas Association for Transsexual Support TG Usage
COMMENTARY by [Name Withheld] If ever an effort deserved to be called the tip of the spear, it is the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy. It might be characterized as redundant…
1974: Sexual Identity and Gender Identity
And ad from a 1974 Drag magazine. Note the way in which sexual identity and gender identity are used: More about Drag Magazine: “DRAG is… the voice of Queens Liberation Front, a transvestite organization…
1691: Sex Change
“Sex change” is currently seen as a sensationalistic term used in the media. Dr. Rawson sent me the following article from 1691 which uses the term “sexes change” to refer to a change of…
1995: Transgender = Umbrella Term
Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/11/1995, Page 1 Iowa City approves state’s 1st transgender protection By Brad Hahn News correspondent IOWA CITY — Iowa City will be the first city in the state and one of…
Why It’s ‘Transgender’ Not ‘Transgendered’
K.J. Rawson on NPR talking about the history of trans terminology:
#TransLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter and Feminism
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…
1979: Transpeople – Umbrella Term
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…
1988: Transgender = Transsexual
On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught, 1988, page 28
1975: Transgenderism = Umbrella Term
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…
1991: Accusation of Stealing Virginia Prince’s Word by ‘Incorrigible Texans’
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 self-taught writer and a…
1991: Virginia Prince on the use of Transgender
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…
Colonization, Enslavement and Forced Assimilation: Narratives Built Upon the Virginia Prince Fountainhead Myth
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…
The Ubiquity of the Prince Fountainhead Narrative
This is a simple review of printed materials incorrectly asserting that Virginia Prince coined the term transgender and/or transgenderist. Each of these many sources got it completely wrong, propagating a false story about how…
Archiving: TG Center Discussion
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