This does not include the genuinely girlhood- oriented boy (see p. 144 and p. 146) who is passing through the teens bound for adult transgender deviance. In some cases symptoms merge with those of…
Transsexual to Speak Bobby Bennet and Phyllis Frye will appear this Friday at 3:30 in Sewell Hall 301 to present their conflicting opinions about transsexuality. Bennett is planning to undergo an operation at Hermann…
The Sun, Apr. 26, 1975 “The gimmick that brought him fame and fortune four years ago was the trans-gender name, the mascara, the bizarre goings-on on stage.”
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this…
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…
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…
1978 Transgenderism is a relatively new term in the field of sexology, one meant to describe a variance falling at some point between transvestism and transsexualism. As such, it is a variance not yet…
Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types of different types of trans experiences: “regular transvestite or femmiphile”; class two—those…
[R]aquel Welch (left), moviedom’s sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal’s transgendered “Myra Breckinridge”… -TV Guide, Sunday, April 26, 1970
This is perhaps the most tantalizing clue to where “transgenderist” may have originated. According to this 1975 letter, Frye first discovered the term in Sussie Collins’, magazine, Female Impersonator News. Sussie Collins was the…