The above represents practically all that’s wrong about the transgender coinage myth that’s been propagated over the last 20 years. Let me just put that myth to rest with 3 simple bullet points: Here’s the trans+gender lexical compound being used in 1965 to describe transsexuals. Here’s a 1975 newspaper article from a trans leader reporting that “transgenderist” […]
By way of introduction to this post: I got to spend last week with Dr. Rawson who flew across the country to spend some time with the Houston transgender archive*. We spent a lot of time talking about the Prince fountainhead myth that’s been propagated over the last couple of decades. We talked about how some […]
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 […]
From a 1989 speech given in San Antonio, Texas: You may feel that a specific national broadcast or the efforts of a specific local group are not in line with your personal gender identity. This might be true, but the gender spectrum is a continuum, and for each of us, there is a level that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
