Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated…
While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. –…
Transgender individuals are likely to show a high incidence of depression, psychosomatic complaints, and chemical dependency. This appears in clinical experience with more than 300 transsexuals. – Journal of Social Work & Human Sexuality…
While we’ve seen it before, we sometimes don’t see the political forest for the trees. The TransAdvocate crew reviews both local and national news and Dr. Gillian Frank helps us recognize the political tactics…
It turns out that basically everyone running the anti-trans campaign against Houston’s equal right’s ordinance is a sexual harasser, pedophile, or sex abuse apologist. Also, we answer your questions in our 2017 year-end special!…
Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100
The first post in this blog is simply going to hi-light some actual quotes from the TERF community. If you would like to have quotes added to this list please sign up for an…
This is a community flier from 1976. Note the attempt to find some taxonomy which encompasses all people of non-cisgender history, experience or expression. Also, note the proto-transgender symbology. "Note: Transvestite, as used herein,…
If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as…
n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore how a variant of the word…