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[box]”… Virginia Prince, a male crossdresser… Calling himself “transgender” rather than a “crossdresser” or a “transvestite” was an attempt to remove himself and other similar “transgenders” from the negative cultural baggage and the concurrent approbation that is linked to male crossdressing.” [link] “In either regard, transgender dogma that states that all transsexuals are also transgender, […]
More‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’, ‘femiphile’, or ‘androgyne’. It is an identifiable group of people within society as a whole. Because of the great amounts of heartburn some people have with the word ‘transvestite’, there is a movement afoot to […]
MoreThe TV-TS Tapestry, 1984 Consider the context with which the terms “transgender” and “transgender community” are used in this 1984 trans community article: The ‘Origins’ and ‘Cures’ for Transgender Behavior by Roger E. Peo, PhD Just about every transgendered person I have ever talked to or heard about had at some time or or another […]
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