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1983: The Uninvited Dilemma and “Transgender”

The Uninvited Dilemma was thought of as one of the most important trans books of its time. The Uninvited Dilemma, has been quoted and referenced countless times in trans books, newsletters and magazines. In…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
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1970: Transgendered

[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

Culture, identity, and representation
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1977: Transpeople

1977 letter to trans man: "Transpeople" 22 August 1977 Dearist Heath, I’m a member of the MCC of the Resurrection in Houston and very happy to be a Christian sibling of Jeri and of…

Education and youthLaw and civil rights
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1975: Transgenderist

1975 usage of Transgenderist, Phyllis Frye 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…

Culture, identity, and representation
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1976: Transgenderist; Trans Classification Table

Table by Phyllis Frye, 1976 Of Note: This table was developed years before Virginia Prince supposedly coined this term This is table puts the development of transgenderist sometime close to 1976 A conceptual taxonomy…

Transgender identity and history
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1976: Transgenderist

Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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1992: Bigenderal Introduction and Rejection

Rebuttal to Prince, February 1992 Bigenderal Introduction: TERMINOLOGY FOR THE CROSSDRESSING COMMUNITY by Virginia Prince The matter of labels in our community has come up many times and seems to be divided between those…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation