I recently did a 2-part article for the Bilerico Project on Trans History and how it is relevant to some of the debates taking place on the internet over language . Starting off the article I noted: Additionally, I’ve noticed that there are a number of distinct arguments going on. They seem to be blending […]
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this nuanced and subjective experience isn’t anything new for the trans community or for society as a whole. Consider the term, “ambisextorous”… […]
I just had to share this thread with all of you rational people out there to highlight more of the irrational burbelings put forth by some of the TS Separatists. As many of you know, I’ve done a lot of fact-checking recently and I’ve found that many of the narratives promoted by Separatists are simply […]
Despite what you’ve heard from the so-called ‘TS Separatists’, it doesn’t seem as if transsexuals were “colonized” at all. The Data, Part 1 Consider the following dataset: – click graph to enlarge – What is this you might ask? This is a comparison of the following 5 terms: Transgender People (light blue) Transsexual People (red) […]
It was only a matter of time really: Dave Wilson is sending anti-gay letters to Houstonians attacking Annise Parker. Wilson, you may remember, is the homophobic electrician who sent 35,000 flyers to Houston homes during the 2009 elections with a picture of Parker’s swearing in for her previous position as City Comptroller, her partner Kathy […]
In 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 […]
Some claim that the reason transsexual people have not yet gained full equality under the law is that there exists a word that is inclusive of both transsexuals with crossdressers: “transgender”. In their minds, it is this tangential connection to the crossdresser – not the oppressive system – that’s the problem. How rooted in the […]
I love looking observing the language we use to describe ourselves and I love our history. However, I tend to feel like I’m listening to a young earth creationist when people on the extremist end of the TS-not-TG group because both would rather live in a fantasy world than to deal with reality. Recently, a […]
