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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

Feb 19, 12

Views: 905Over 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 put into words how those documents affected me. Most of us don’t know that we all owe Phyllis a debt of gratitude. In Houston, we trace our community back to...

Historical Trans Terms, Volume III

Feb 17, 12

Posted by Cristan in History, Language

Views: 8490.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language . . Old German Trans Terms The more things change, the more they stay the same. From someone being cis to having explicit trans umbrella terms, we’ve been there done that… about 100 years ago. A while back, I had posted a 30-year old article where we...

More History on Trans Terms

Feb 09, 12

Posted by Cristan in History, Language

Views: 171Here’s a few more interesting finds I thought I’d share: 1907: Transsexual = Cross-sexed 1908: Trans-sexual = Cross-sexual 1915: Trans-sexed = Trans-gendered 1971: Transsex added to Dictionary 1973: Transsex in Glam Rock 1977:...

More on Historical Trans Terms

Feb 05, 12

Posted by Cristan in 1970s, 1980s

Views: 222As many of you know, I have another blog that’s rather dry and is only focused on recording the interesting bits of trans history I come across. A great deal of what I post has to do with the language used to describe the non-cis experience. Here’s a few bits that I’ve not yet shared on this...

I HATE Separatists?

Feb 04, 12

Posted by Cristan in Community, Uncategorized

Views: 296While I’m guilty of hating hate, of being intolerant towards intolerance and of having evil intentions towards evil, I’ve no personal issue with Separatists as people. As I’ve said several times, I’m not invested in what someone else chooses to call themselves or whether they want to be part of any...

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Jan 14, 12

Posted by Cristan in Community

Views: 468This post is a collection of randomness that didn’t warrant its own post; so, I thought I’d lump it all together here… Dana Lane Taylor took down her site after I issued my challenge: After defending the show, ABC’s Work It was canceled and replaced with reruns. . Some YouTube comments...