A Drama Preemption
Posted by Cristan on September 27, 2011
http://www.cristanwilliams.com/b/2011/09/27/a-drama-preemption/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.
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So, before I go into releasing documents associated with the 1990s which use terms like transgenderal, ->-bleeped-<-, transgenderist, transgendered(s) and transgendering (in ways that we do not now recognize), I want to try to preempt at least some drama by putting the "Prince dun it" mythos to bed. Let me state it here and now that it is a fact that the concept of using a one compound word – combining "trans" and "gender" together into one word – to refer to people who cross cultural gender norms originated in 1914 German sexology writings. There is a huge period between 1914 and 1969 that I will focus on in my research blog after I finish posting on the 1990s.
