1991: Virginia Prince on the use of Transgender

What follows is an exchange between Virginia Prince and Tere Fredrickson, co-organizer (along with the primary organizer, Phyllis Frye, VP of GCTC) of the ICTLEP Conference.   Dear Linda and Tere:                                  Sept 1, 1991 Thanks for sending me the issues of Gender Euphoria. I feel something of a proprietary interest in it because of its title. […]

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Colonization, Enslavement and Forced Assimilation: Narratives Built Upon the Virginia Prince Fountainhead Myth

In this post I review the rhetoric employed by transsexuals who have refused to use “transgender” to describe their experience while claiming that Virginia Prince coined the term to only refer to people like herself: heterosexual crossdressers who live full-time as female but do not wish to undergo any genital reconstructive surgery. This is part […]

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