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Facebook Drama with Dana Taylor

Some FaceBook junkfood for your brain….   Dana Lane Taylor  Cristan, who are the “separatists” that would be mad that this passed? I want to know so I can call them mean names. BTW, you deal with “facts” so I imagine you have a list who have condemned this. http://www.transadvocate.com/crowing-over-progress.htm Cristan Williams Well, to start with… […]

Objectively Measuring Our Community

If you’ve not done so, PLEASE take this quick trans community survey: [button link=”http://research.cristanwilliams.com/surveys/index.php?sid=27854&lang=en”] Take Survey Here [/button] This measures the “sense of community” within our population. When the survey is done, the cities with the most responses will have a “community profile” available to them. This profile will include basic demographics, how the community […]

Crowing Over Progress

Well, TS Separatists have warned us for years that progress will never be seen under the rubric of the transgender borg. The time has come for me to admit that the Separatists were right about it all! I’m so ashamed! After all of this time and effort… we’ve changed nothing… nada. We’ve made no progress at all! They were right […]

Dr. Milton Diamond Interview

I wanted to let folks know that I’ll be able to share an interview I did with Diamond soon. I’ll probably be able to upload the interview sometime this weekend on my research blog. We talk about his research experience,  the history of terminology, his “rivalry” with John Money and more. I found Diamond to be […]

Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even put into words how those documents affected me. Most of us don’t know that we all owe Phyllis a debt of gratitude. In Houston, we trace our community back to Phyllis. On the […]

DOOM! Part II

This is Part II of a 5-part series designed to highlight the similarities in the rhetorical tactics commonly used by both Separatists and Fundamentalists. While a Fundie might say that “If gay marriage is legal, America will have hurricanes in the future,” this series reviews some of the ways in which Separatists have claimed that […]

Historical Trans Terms, Volume III

90.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/36566598″ iframe=”true” /] . . Old German Trans Terms The more things change, the more they stay the same. From someone being cis to having explicit trans umbrella terms, we’ve been there done that… about 100 years ago. A while back, I had posted a 30-year […]

More History on Trans Terms

Here’s a few more interesting finds I thought I’d share: 1907: Transsexual = Cross-sexed 1908: Trans-sexual = Cross-sexual 1915: Trans-sexed = Trans-gendered 1971: Transsex added to Dictionary 1973: Transsex in Glam Rock 1977: Trans-sexed  

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