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, was involved with the Texas T-Party, was instrumental in making the International Transgender Law Conference a reality (and thereby creating what became know as “transgender law”) and went toe-to-toe with Virginia Prince over the use of “transgender.” Cristan: What might most appropriately define your experiance: crossdresser, transsexual, other? Tere: Other would be correct since PAIS technically would make me intersexed—AIS has six PAIS levels with level seven known as CAIS. It only became identified with the human genome project—recessive AR gene on the mother’s X chromosome. Fascinating stuff. Cristan: I see that you were instrumental in founding what it known as being “transgender law” in America; I can’t help but notice your fingerprints all over ICLEPT

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