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1984: Transgender Community = Modern Transgender Community
The TV-TS Tapestry, 1984 Consider the context with which the terms “transgender” and “transgender community” are used in this 1984 trans community article: The ‘Origins’ and ‘Cures’ for Transgender...
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1984: State of Trans Terms
‘Transvestite/Transsexual (TV/TS) Community’ includes everyone who identifies with any of the following words: ‘transvestite’, ‘cross-dresser’, ‘transgender’, ‘transsexual’, ‘drag queen’,...
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1973: United Transvestite and Transsexual Society
Consider what the United Transvestite and Transexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say about the idea of community. As you’re reading the following announcement, remember that this was a national...
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1972: Transsexual Action Organization Call for Community
Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or expression in...
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1992: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy
The pamphlet from the first ICTLEP: 1992 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSGENDER LAW AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY This Conference is for attorneys and other legal professionals; for employment,...
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1976: Transgenderist
Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince...
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1989: Tribute to Christine Jorgensen
1989: TV-TS Tapestry, Issue 54 She must have seen many changes since that day in 1952 when the headlines blared “GI Becomes Blonde Bombshell”, as have we all. Certainly, she, and we, saw the day pass...
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1973: Transvestite & Transsexual Activism
Did you catch that inclusivity? If you didn’t let me quote the words written by a transsexual woman: “By the time you read this letter, cross-dressing should be legal in the City of Detroit. I, along...
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1970s Review of TS/TV Unity
So, prior to the 1990s, did the TS and non-TS groups work together to form a larger group in order to pursue “common social, economic, and political interests” (see definition of “community”)? I can...
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Meta Analysis: Social Anxiety Levels in MTF Transgender People
Comparison of anxiety Of the two studies that I reviewed which quantify this issue [1,2] a 55% average was found. Within the general American population, similar types of anxiety are experienced by...
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