My place to post research about trans culture & history
I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share. – Philosophy, Children, and the Family, 1982, Page 124
MoreA disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28
MoreSexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Publication date: 1981 In Polynesia, sexuality is not merely an idiom for gender relations but of transgender rank as well: Chiefliness and aristocracy are associated with active sexuality and with the stimulation of the fertility of nature (Ortner). – Page 17 Whitehead suggests that the […]
MoreWhile cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. – Abstracts of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1988, Volume 87, page 147
MoreTransgender individuals are likely to show a high incidence of depression, psychosomatic complaints, and chemical dependency. This appears in clinical experience with more than 300 transsexuals. – Journal of Social Work & Human Sexuality 1988, Volume 7, Page 84
MoreTranssexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100
MoreChristine Jorgensen was a famous transsexual woman who preferred to be referred to as being a transgender woman: 1979: Newsday article reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press, 1979 The article reads: As a young man, Jorgensen experienced strong emotional attachments to two male friends, but she says those feelings were never expressed. She admits […]
MoreI was at the airport one day I thought I’d play with attempting to represent some information about the history and social context of transgender terminology in a graph: – Click graph to enlarge – So, what I came up with are the 5 most historically used English terms: Transvestite (ca. 1910), Crossdreser (ca. 1972), […]
MoreAs many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. Clinical Sexuality 1974, 3rd Edition The milder case of transvestitism does not come easily to medical or any other professional attention, and it has rarely been included […]
MoreAs many of you know by now, I’ve recently been interested in uncovering never before considered historical records relating to how the term “transgender” evolved over the years. A Practical Handbook of Psychiatry 1974 Edition Psychiatric Evaluation for Transgender Surgery Transvestite: The transvestite rarely seeks transgender surgery, since the core of his perversion is an […]
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