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1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender

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Source Summary

"transgender pronouns" 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.? But help may be on the way in the form of ey, eir, and em. Those are the winning entries in the Chicago Association of Business Communicators’ contest to find pronouns to replace she and he[ey], him and her[em1, his and hers[eir]. ‘ “It,” a neuter pronoun, already exists, but contest winner Christine M. Elverson of Skokie says her words are “transgender pronouns.” She formed them by dropping “the” from the familiar plural pronouns, they, them, and their. FOR EXAMPLE, a speaker might use these new transgender pronouns when ey addresses an audience of both men and women. Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn’t clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And

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Community significance

“1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to media, rhetoric, and discourse. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
8%
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
8%

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Interpretive analysis
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Cristan

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