Terminology

1969: Transgenderal = Full-Time, Non-Op

  “Here I draw on dissertation research by Robert Hill at the University of Michigan which he very generously shared with me. Hill’s research into early transvestite publications at the Kinsey Institute (and especially Prince’s Transvestia magazine) reveals only a few instances over many years in which Prince used varieties of this term in her […]

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1978: Transgender = Cross-Sex

In the play he has chosen to explore his theory, a 60-year-old woman pursues a 16-year-old boy. His “transgender realization” of Oscar Wilde’s Salome will be performed for the next two weekends at Star Systems Loft, 24 Thayer St. in Boston (357-9727). With roles reversed, Salome is male, King Herod s female and Herodias a […]

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1977: Transgenderal = Transsexual

We note the special case of “transsexuals,” a term which interestingly enough is being shifted to “transgenderal” in that literature. This citation references the following sentence: Sex is the biological dichotomy between female and male, chromosomally determine and for the most part, unalterable. [5] NOTES: Toward a Sociological Theory of Gender and Sex Author(s): Meredith Gould Reviewed work(s):Source: The American Sociologist, […]

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