Transgender Community Roots: The UTTS
http://www.cristanwilliams.com/b/2011/07/06/transgender-community-roots-the-utts/ In the 1970s and early 80s, we referred to our community as the "gender community" and nowadays we refer to it as the "transgender community." In what ways, if any, were these two substantially different? The various posts I've recently made seeks to shed light on this question.
As I've said before, the modern incarnation of the alliances between various types of trans folks (which we currently refer to as being the transgender community) came from somewhere and if we choose to look, over and over again we find that early transsexual leaders, organizations and coalitions were forming the very narratives some blame non-transsexuals for inventing decades before the 1990s.
Consider what the United ->-bleeped-<- and Transsexual Society (formed in 1973) had to say.
