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Sense of Community
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 […]
More1973: Transvestite & Transsexual Activism
Did you catch that inclusivity? If you didn’t let me quote the words written by a transsexual woman: “By the time you read this letter, cross-dressing should be legal in the City of Detroit. I, along with another transsexual and a transvestite, decided to do something about the law in Detroit.”
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1972: Transsexual Action Organization Call for Community
Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or expression in order to fight for common purpose: Looking Toward the Future by Cynthia Platt 1972 As TAO secretary I would like to discuss how a transexual […]
More1973: United Transvestite and Transsexual Society
Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national organization that helped give rise to a community of trans people that went on to pass their goals and values on to a later […]
More1984: State of Trans Terms
‘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 […]
More1984: Transgender Community = Modern Transgender Community
The 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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