Views: 8490.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language
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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...
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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:...
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Views: 1039I just read a sad little rant by a TS Separatist:
“I see the T in lgbt as being a dumping zone, a miscelaneous, really in my view, the T is a junk drawer, an oubliette if you will. The T can stand for MEN who wear women’s clothes for reasons of sexual arousal, it can stand for gay MEN who wear women’s...
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Views: 590If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions?
How does your datasets deal with:
White people who do not identify as white
Non-transsexuals who identify as being transsexual
Transgender people who do not identify as being transgender
Black...
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Views: 697As I said before, I set out doing research into the etiology of the term “transgender’” to satisfy my curiosity about claims made about the term. I’ve therefore focused on the eras which are most consistently discussed: 1970 – 1979, 1980 – 1989 and 1990 – 1999.
However, in satisfying my curiosity by going...
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Views: 1147For the past few months, I’ve made available a number of never-before-considered documents that reviewed the true roots of the word “transgender”.
The Myth
The term “transgender” was coined by a heterosexual crossdresser chauvinist who hated transsexual people, Virginia Prince. The term was explicitly created to...
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