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The Right Way To Be LGB Or T?

Back in 2009 I asked the the question if there were a right way to be LGB Or T. As I consider the personal difficulties […]

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Dear Jennifer Usher, Please Do Keep Your Focus On Me

[alert type=”info”]Jennifer Usher posted up on her blog a post entitled Slacktivists? ROTFLLMAO!!!!! as a response to my recent Transadvocate post Transsexual Separatist Slacktivism Doesn’t […]

Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
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Trans Terms History and Context

I was at the airport one day I thought I’d play with attempting to represent some information about the history and social context of transgender terminology in a graph: – Click graph to enlarge…

History, archives, and memoryTransgender identity and history
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1976: Transvestite = Transgender Community

This is a community flier from 1976. Note the attempt to find some taxonomy which encompasses all people of non-cisgender history, experience or expression. Also, note the proto-transgender symbology.

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review

“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community; a term…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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1973: Transsex in Glam Rock

Gabriel used to appear in a fox mask and a red dress, which evolved from the “Foxtrot” LP. This brings up the subject of glam rock in England and its bisexuality. “That was just…

Culture, identity, and representation
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1971: Transsex added to Dictionary

“Jesus freak, imploit, sexism, transsex, stun gun…” “Transsex was invented by Christine Jorgensen.” Desexegration is something you’ll see more of, now that the Red Chinese are represented in the UN and their families are…

Sex and gender classification
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1977: Trans-sexed

She withdrew from medical practice in order to concentrate on playing tennis as “my vehicle” for proving that a trans-sexed male “is a woman in every conceivable way” and not “psychotic or freaky.”

Healthcare and medicine
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1915: Trans-sexed

Lived Six Years in Trans-Sexed Attire: Girl Buried in Her “First Black Suit” (United Press) Chicago, Feb. 9. — Ida Weinstein, 26 years old, was buried yesterday in the first dress to clothe her…

Race and intersectionality