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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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1966: Intro to Transsexual Phenomena, Harry Benjamin

The TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON Harry Benjamin, M.D Preface and Acknowledgement There is a challenge as well as a handicap in writing a book on a subject that is not yet covered in the medical literature.…

Healthcare and medicineHistory, 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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1973: Transvestite & Transsexual Activism

Did you catch that inclusivity? If you didn’t let me quote the words written by a transsexual woman: “By the time you read this letter, cross-dressing should be legal in the City of Detroit.…

Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
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1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen

She must have seen many changes since that day in 1952 when the headlines blared “GI Becomes Blonde Bombshell”, as have we all. Certainly, she, and we, saw the day pass when a specific…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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1691: Sex Change

“Sex change” is currently seen as a sensationalistic term used in the media. Dr. Rawson sent me the following article from 1691 which uses the term “sexes change” to refer to a change of…

Media, rhetoric, and discourse