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Q&A: Taking a break from trans advocacy

The TransAdvocate Q & A is where we answer your questions. If you’d like to submit a question, go to our contact page and send it in. Today’s question is: Is it responsible or…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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1971: Transsex added to Dictionary

Dictionary Tests New Word: Friday, November 19,1971 “Transsex” “Jesus freak, imploit, sexism, transsex, stun gun…” “Transsex” “Transsex was invented by Christine Jorgensen.” “Desexegration” Desexegration is something you’ll see more of, now that the Red…

Sex and gender classification
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1977: Trans-sexed

Trans-sexed, 1977 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…

Healthcare and medicine
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1915: Trans-sexed

The Evening Record – Feb 9, 1915 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…

Race and intersectionality
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1982: Transgenders = Transsexuals, Christine Jorgensen

Appeal-Democrat, Tuesday, May 11, 1982, p. A-10 Associated Press Article, 1982 ‘Transgender’ FRESNO (AP)—Christine Jorgensen says her highly publicized sex change operation three decades age gave her the identity she needed to find “happiness…

Culture, identity, and representationTransgender identity and history
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1885: Transgender Person Discovered After Death

The Coshocton Democrat, Page 3; May 5, 1865. (Coshocton, Ohio) A MALE-WOMAN. — A strange sort of person named Sophia Gibons, died a few days ago [in] Cambridge out in Guernsey County Ohio. It…

Transgender identity and history
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1999: Transgenderize

"Transgenderize" - Rockford Institute Chronicles, Vol 23, 1999 (p. 41) Demonstrate the ability to opheliate (ie, transgenderize) comprehensively one soliloquy from Hamlet. Demonstrate the ability to devise 16 different interpretations of an instructional leaflet…

Culture, identity, and representation
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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…

Healthcare and medicineMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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1947: “Trans-sexual” Usage by C. S. Lewis

"Trans-sexual" Miracles, 1947 (ch. 16) 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…

Culture, identity, and representation