Coming of age, or regression?

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Coming of age, or regression?
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Bay Area Reporter
http://www.ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=transmissions&article=124

The transgender community has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. At the risk of talking about the days I walked uphill in the snow to get to school, I feel I must discuss what the transgender community looked like just a few short years ago.
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Further, the community was largely divided, with "cross-dresser" and "transsexual" factions. Both of these were focused on male to female individuals: there was little attention paid to female to male trans people.

There was a bigger division between transgender groups and the larger gay and lesbian organizations.
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