1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender, Alice Cooper
The Sun, Apr. 26, 1975 “The gimmick that brought him fame and fortune four years ago was the trans-gender name, the mascara, the bizarre goings-on on stage.”
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1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender
Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23, 1975 Ey has a word for it By Judie Black AS WOMEN HAVE grown freer, the English language has grown more tangled: What’s a chairperson and who is a Ms.? But help may be on the way in the form of ey, eir, and em. Those are the winning entries in […]
More1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”
Some Things Worry You About World The story of the Miami housewife who, it turned out, had once been a man, was a shocker. But not just because it involved sex surgery. After all, if science can correct such mistakes of nature as the absence of hair or decay of teeth, or dimming eyesight or […]
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Old German Trans Terms
So many of our trans terms seem to have originated in the German Sexology movement of the late 1800/early 1900s. Here’s a list of German trans terms I’m currently researching. Cisvestitische, Cisvestiten, Cisvestit Geschlechtsüebergäenge Hermaphroditismus Metaplastische Seelenzwitter Transgestismus, Transgesticismus Transsexualismus, Transsexualistische, Transsexuell Transvestiten, Transvestitismus, Namenstransvestitismus Zwischengeschlecht, Zwischenstufen, Zwischenstufentheorie Zwittertum These terms put a new spin […]
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