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. – McCary’s Human Sexuality, 1982, Page 410
From The Language of Sex A to Z by Dr. Robert M. Goldenson and Kenneth N. Anderson: Transgenderism: a gender identity disorder in which a person strongly identifies with the opposite sex and may…
Crosspost from my Ehipassiko blog, posted here for research value Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even…
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…
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From Sexual Hygiene and Pathology, 1965 by John F. Oliven, MD: From the section, “Primary Transvestism,” which is part of chapter 20, Sexual Deviations: Transsexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and…
Transgenderism Series The Salmacis Society is sponsoring a series of eight meetings on transgenderism beginning on May 15 and continuing every other Thursday t through August 21. They will be held in conjunction with…
K.J. Rawson on NPR talking about the history of trans terminology:
SALMACIS OFFER LECTURES FRANCES L. DOWELL, President, Salmacis Society Salmacis, the egalitarian Feminist Social Society, has announced a series of eight educational lectures on Transgenderism, to run until August 21. The lectures will be…