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1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966

Niagara Falls Gazette Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968 Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July…

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1966: Trans-Sex = Cross-Sex

Waterloo Daily Courier, January 8, 1967, Page 55 Trans-Sex Surgery at Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (AP) – Trans-sexual surgery has been completed on the first patient in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s gender research…

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1908: Trans-sexual = Cross-sexual

The Medical Times, December 1908 So far as we have been able to observe, either in the historic or individual sense, a strong, deep, pure trans-sexual love which is the theoretic and, to a…

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1907 Transsexual = Cross-Gender

Prior to this post, it was asserted that the term “transsexual” was first used in 1949 (transexual and transsexualis) and the German version, (transsexualismus) was first used in 1923. Now, it seems that this…

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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

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…

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1898: Transsesso = Transgender/Transsexual, Currently

The term “transsesso” is the modern-day Italian term for transgender and transsexual. Here’s this term being used in a 1898 Latin language book. I’m noting this 1800s usage to make the point that sticking…

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1947: “Trans-sexual” Usage by C. S. Lewis

"Trans-sexual" Miracles, 1947 (ch. 16) The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our…

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Transsexer: 2000, Transsexor: 1990 and Transsexism: 1977

First currently known derivations of the following terms… Transsexer: "Transsexer" - Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations by Martin Meeker, 2000 (p 112) Transsexor: "Transsexor" - Homosexuality As Behavior and Identity: Dialogues of…

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1966: Trans-sexualists = Transsexuals

"Trans-sexualists" - Midnight, Vol 13, No 21, 5/19/63 They think like women and like to think of themselves as women. They feel like women and react like women. They want to be women and…

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