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Identity VS Definitions

Nov 30, 11

Posted by Cristan in Identity Wars, Language

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...

An Intro: “Transgender” During the 1990s

Sep 08, 11

Posted by Cristan in 1990s, Identity Wars, Language

Views: 1148For 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...

Conversation Between a Separatist and an Inclusionist

Views: 530As some of you know, I had invited Dana Taylor to do a discussion on BlogTV. While she declined (she said she didn’t trust me) Deena was willing to take her place. Here’s the raw video clips from the conversation. BlogTV only lets me record in 10 min. increments, so there’s some conversation missing...

The Problem of Evidence for TS Separatists

Jul 30, 11

Posted by Cristan in Community, Derp, Identity Wars, Language

Views: 3646I recently did a 2-part article for the Bilerico Project on Trans History and how it is relevant to some of the debates taking place on the internet over language . Starting off the article I noted: Additionally, I’ve noticed that there are a number of distinct arguments going on. They seem to be blending together...

Mythbusting: Transgender Colonization

Jul 23, 11

Posted by Cristan in Derp, Identity Wars, Uncategorized

Views: 3429Despite what you’ve heard from the so-called ‘TS Separatists’, it doesn’t seem as if transsexuals were “colonized” at all. The Data, Part 1 Consider the following dataset: - click graph to enlarge - What is this you might ask? This is a comparison of the following 5 terms: Transgender People (light...

Attitudes about TS and CD People as a Group in 1959

Jul 19, 11

Posted by Cristan in 1950s, Christianity, Civil Rights, Eras, Fundamentalism, History, Identity Wars, Language, Marriage Equality, Religion, Right Wing Watch

Views: 856Some claim that the reason transsexual people have not yet gained full equality under the law is that there exists a word that is inclusive of both transsexuals with crossdressers: “transgender”. In their minds, it is this tangential connection to the crossdresser – not the oppressive system – that’s the...