Ar a trial three people had been charged with various offences connected with prostitution. Gloria Greaves, a transexual, was convicted inter alia of living on the earnings of prostitution contrary to s30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956, and Brian Greaves, with whom he/she had gone through a ceremony of marriage, was convicted of living…
These newsletters were published by The XX Club from 1988 to 1997. The newsletter was originally titled Twenty Minutes but was rebranded Twenty in 1991. These publications provided information to and support for members of the transgender community by publishing personal accounts as well as academic writings. Topics include gender realignment surgery and hormone therapy,…
The study of psvchoerotic pathology dates back no farther than the last quarter of the last century. Before that time very little was known of sex, ex- cept its pathological anatomy. Complete silence reigned on sex psychology. No textbooks dared to lift the veil over this important part of the human psyche.
Im textlichen Teile des Buches: „Die Transvestiten“ sprachen wir die Absicht aus, in einem besonderen illustrierten Teile die in diesem Werke bekundeten Ausführungen durch instruktive Abbildungen zu ergänzen, sofern danach in größerer Anzahl Wünsche an uns heran treten würden. Solche Anliegen sind uns bei dem über Erwarten großen Interesse, das dem Buche „Die Transvestiten“ entgegengebracht…
In a former work, “Men in Women’s Guise,” we dealt with some curious examples of the human species: the Abbé de Choisy, the Abbé d’Entraignes, Philippe d’Orléans, the Chevalier d’Eon, Savalette de Lange, and many others. Of those strange personalities, we propose to select two to serve as a kind of introduction to the present…
A survey of essays about men in who wished to “pass as women,” beginning in the 17th century and ending with the author’s contemporaries. Each chapter is dedicated to different individual, including biographical information and attempts at psychological analysis. Translated from the original French. Made and printed in Great Britain at The Mayflower Press, Plymouth.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: The object of this work has been the isolation of groups of inter- sexes possessing common clinical features and arising from particular physiopathological disturbances, i.e., from particular modes of malfunction oft h e mechanism of sex determination. For this reason I have studied first the physiopathology of intersexuality. To orient…
Thirty-seven representatives of the medical, sur- posium sponsored by EEF was held in November, gical, psychiatric and psychological disciplines at- 1970, at the Koubek Center of the University of tended a University of Minnesota and Erickson Edu- Miami. The all-day program on transsexualism was cational Foundation-sponsored invitational sympo- sium in January, 1971, to exchange information…
A significant milestone in the effort to meet some of the social needs of individuals with the trans- sexual condition was reached in San Francisco in January at the Glide Memorial Church. A planning seminar, moderated by Officer Elliott R. Blackstone of The Police Community Relations Unit and sponsored by the National Transsexual Counseling Unit,…
WHO IS THE TRANSEXUAL The transexual is a member of the human family, even as you and I, for whom life, in several critical respects, has been and still may be more complex than it is for us. This very broad answer to what may be for you an anguished question nevertheless will be seen…