I’m sure Marti won’t be offended when I point to the HBS/separatist clique as a hugely American, white, privileged former male movement. These people give no respect to those before them who lived for decades as women with NO recourse to hormones, surgery or even a sympathetic ear. The very women who kicked off at […]
I’m going to call it: the TS Separatist movement – as it has existed over the past 5 years – is dead. The foundational falsehoods upon which TS Separatism was built have been exposed and thus, destroyed. Furthermore, in an ironic twist, it’s been shown that the guy HBSers (a subset of the TS Separatist group) named themselves after didn’t actually […]
3/25/12 – Rough Draft: Thoughts on this rough draft are appreciated! While the thesis will remain (meme transference and diffusion via opinion leaders) I’ll continue cleaning up typos and structure for a bit. If you feel that I need to cover something that I’m not covering or that I need to cover something differently, please let […]
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 […]
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
We can either go the route of Harvey Milk or we can go the route of the Mattachines.
If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as white Non-transsexuals who identify as being transsexual Transgender people who do not identify as being transgender Black people who do not […]
As I said before, I set out doing research into the etiology of the term “transgender’” to satisfy my curiosity about claims made about the term. I’ve therefore focused on the eras which are most consistently discussed: 1970 – 1979, 1980 – 1989 and 1990 – 1999. However, in satisfying my curiosity by going about […]
