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Title: It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists
Post by: Hazumu on October 29, 2007, 12:23:52 AM
Post by: Hazumu on October 29, 2007, 12:23:52 AM
by Susan Stryker.
http://www.eqfl.org/pdfs/enda/HistoryLessons.pdf
"1. Transgender is not a recent fad; Anti-transgender discrimination is not new.
In the United States, cities all across the country started passing ordinances against crossdressing
beginning in the 1840s. That's not a typo. The 1840s. A common phrase in these
laws made it a crime for a man or a woman to appear in public "in a dress not belonging
to his or her sex."
2. Why were so many nineteenth-century cities making it illegal to cross-dress?
Good question. Must be because a lot of people were doing it."
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Great talking points!
Karen
http://www.eqfl.org/pdfs/enda/HistoryLessons.pdf
"1. Transgender is not a recent fad; Anti-transgender discrimination is not new.
In the United States, cities all across the country started passing ordinances against crossdressing
beginning in the 1840s. That's not a typo. The 1840s. A common phrase in these
laws made it a crime for a man or a woman to appear in public "in a dress not belonging
to his or her sex."
2. Why were so many nineteenth-century cities making it illegal to cross-dress?
Good question. Must be because a lot of people were doing it."
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Great talking points!
Karen
Title: Re: It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists
Post by: Shana A on October 29, 2007, 03:04:03 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 29, 2007, 03:04:03 PM
Karen,
Thanks for posting this, everyone should read it!!
zythyra
Thanks for posting this, everyone should read it!!
zythyra
Title: Re: It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists
Post by: Lisbeth on October 29, 2007, 03:39:35 PM
Post by: Lisbeth on October 29, 2007, 03:39:35 PM
In the nineteenth century, the majority of them were women dressing in men's clothes. This is the opposite of the twentieth century.
Title: Re: It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists
Post by: Wing Walker on November 08, 2007, 09:14:20 PM
Post by: Wing Walker on November 08, 2007, 09:14:20 PM
Quote from: Lisbeth on October 29, 2007, 03:39:35 PM
In the nineteenth century, the majority of them were women dressing in men's clothes. This is the opposite of the twentieth century.
Frederic Chopin had a romance with one George Sand who was a cross-dressing woman.
Wing Walker
Title: Re: It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive ENDA Activists
Post by: Shana A on November 10, 2007, 08:41:59 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 10, 2007, 08:41:59 AM
Quote from: Wing Walker on November 08, 2007, 09:14:20 PM
Frederic Chopin had a romance with one George Sand who was a cross-dressing woman.
I've always been fascinated about their relationship, looking at it through my 21st century lenses, it seems to be very queer or trans.
zythyra