Cristan

Like digging into trans history :)

Wikipedia Rewrite: Transgender

I was asked to rewrite the origin narrative for the “transgender” entry on wikipedia. The current entry is full of demonstrable falsehoods which propagate ignorance concerning the history of this term. Chief among the misinformation is the insistence (without evidence) that Virginia Prince in the lexical fountainhead for trans terms. Here’s the rewrite I submitted: By a matter of months, it seems […]

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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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