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Identity VS Reality VS Definitions
If 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 people who do not […]
More“Crossgender”: Precursor to Transgender?
n further exploring how the evolution of the trans lexicon has brought us to this moment in linguistic history, I felt that it might be interesting to explore how a variant of the word ‘transgender’ was used. Both ‘transgender’ and ‘crossgender’ are semantically similar; both words connote a movement across gender. Since the first instance […]
More1981: Trans-Gender = Across Genders
The Spirit of the Earth, Jerome Perlinski 1st edition, 1981 Evolution of the Trans-Gender Process
More1988:Transgender People = Transsexual People
Anchorage Daily News reprint of LA Times, Aug. 1, 1988 Biological women, thought to account for only 6 percent of the nation’s transsexual population in the early 1950s, now make up around 25 percent of the 10,000 to 25,000 trans-gender people in the United States, according to a survey of those in the filed.
More1986: Transgender Services = Transsexual Services
But the sex change process is gradual, and Marcia stands to undergo a lengthy period of androgyny before she will fully pass in society as a woman. These are lonely and difficult days for Marcia. She is thinking seriously about a move back to Minneapolis where her closest friend, Joyce — also a male-to-female transsexual […]
More1982: Transgenderism = Transgenderist
Transgenderism is a relatively new term in the field of sexology, one meant to describe a variance falling at some point between transvestism and transsexualism. – McCary’s Human Sexuality, 1982, Page 410
More1982: Transgender = Cross-Gender
I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share. – Philosophy, Children, and the Family, 1982, Page 124
More1981: Transgender Identity
A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28
More1981: Transgender, To Transcend Gender
Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated with active sexuality and with the stimulation of the fertility of nature (Ortner). – Page 17 Whitehead suggests that the […]
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