1970s

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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1970s Review of TS/TV Unity

So, prior to the 1990s, did the TS and non-TS groups work together to form a larger group in order to pursue “common social, economic, and political interests” (see definition of “community”)? I can unequivocally say YES. In fact, that drive to pull different types of trans people together in order to, as a community of […]

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