My place to post research about trans culture & history
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 […]
More“[In 1974] some of the terminology used at the conference would take some twenty years to become widespread. As far as we are aware, the first use of the term trans.people (sic) was when Julia Tonner referred to “the two worlds of the trans.people” (ie transsexuals and transvestites). In addition, there was also talk of […]
MoreThe TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON Harry Benjamin, M.D Preface and Acknowledgement There is a challenge as well as a handicap in writing a book on a subject that is not yet covered in the medical literature. Transsexualism is such a subject. The handicap lies in the absence of all previous observations to which to compare one’s […]
MoreChristine 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 […]
More. 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 […]
MoreCertificate 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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