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Transgender
Wikipedia Rewrite: Transgender
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 […]
More1974: Trans-People and Transgender as Umbrella Terms
“[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 […]
More1970: Transgendered
[R]aquel Welch (left), moviedom’s sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal’s transgendered “Myra Breckinridge”… -TV Guide, Sunday, April 26, 1970
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