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 Julia Tonner referred to “the two worlds of the trans.people” (ie transsexuals and transvestites). In addition, there was also talk of […]
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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