1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance

While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. – Abstracts of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1988, Volume 87, page 147

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Trans Community: Sense of Community?

I’ve set up a survey for the trans community using the “Sense of Community Index-2” (SCI-2) research tool. For some time I’ve wanted to do this survey with the trans community. Take the survey here. For some time, I’ve seen and heard subjective assertions like: I love the transgender community! I hate the transgender community! […]

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Christine Jorgensen: Transgender Woman

Christine Jorgensen was a famous transsexual woman who preferred to be referred to as being a transgender woman: 1979:   Newsday article reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press, 1979 The article reads: As a young man, Jorgensen experienced strong emotional attachments to two male friends, but she says those feelings were never expressed. She admits […]

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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 – So, what I came up with are the 5 most historically used English terms: Transvestite (ca. 1910), Crossdreser (ca. 1972), […]

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1885: Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men

. The Boston Daily Globe: Tues., Sept. 15, 1885 WINCHESTER’S SENSATION Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men. The Romance of "Rebecca," Afterward "Lawrence," H Payne. A Father’s Efforts to Secure Possession of His Child. The Washington Post publishes the following special from a reporter of that paper who was sent to Winchester to investigate […]

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Transgender: 1974, “Transgender Surgery”

As many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. A Practical Handbook of Psychiatry 1974 Edition Psychiatric Evaluation for Transgender Surgery Transvestite: The transvestite rarely seeks transgender surgery, since the core of his perversion is an […]

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5/5/1926 LAWRENCE PAYNE’s Death Cert

Certificate of Death Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics State Board of Health #11956 Place of Death Country of: Fredrick Magisterial District of: Stonewall Registration District No: 3416 Registered No: 2 Full Name Lawrence R. Payne   Personal Statistics and Particulars Sex: M Color or Race: White Single, Married, Widowed or Divorced: Widowed If Married, […]

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