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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…

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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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…

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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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…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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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…

Labor, economics, and institutions
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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…

Community and organizingLabor, economics, and institutions
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Transphobia & Narcissistic Stupefaction

Returning to the poison chalice of TERFism, consider this, the underlying conceit underpinning all aspects of fascism: making meritorious mere accidents of birth. How […]

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics