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1980s
“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
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