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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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HBIDGA (WPATH) SOC I

The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric persons…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
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1984: State of Trans Terms

‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’, ‘femiphile’, or ‘androgyne’. It is an identifiable group of people within society as a whole.…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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1973: United Transvestite and Transsexual Society

Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national organization that helped…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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1976: Transgenderist; Trans Classification Table

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 is evident in this graph;…

Transgender identity and history