As many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. Clinical Sexuality 1974, 3rd Edition The…
As many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. A Practical Handbook of Psychiatry 1974…
I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share. – Philosophy, Children, and the Family,…
A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28
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…
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
Anchorage Daily News reprint of LA Times, Aug. 1, 1988 Biological women, thought to account for only 6 percent of the nation’s transsexual population in the early 1950s, now make up around 25 percent…
But the sex change process is gradual, and Marcia stands to undergo a lengthy period of androgyny before she will fully pass in society as a woman. These are lonely and difficult days for…