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…
“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the…
Tamara Rees’ autobiography (author name listed as “Tamara Reese”). “This story has its beginning early in the childhood of a person born on May 15, 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri. The family consists of a father, mother and three livingchildren and one still born. The story concerns myself, the middle child, born and surrounded by…
An anthology of poetry and essays created by trans folks supporting and partaking in Camp Trans, an event created out of protest of the trans-exclusionary “womyn-born-womyn” Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. This 2001 iteration of Camp Trans continues a tradition started in the ’90s, as a part-protest-part-celebration for trans liberation and against the TERF groups which…
this is the story of how I was raped by my first boyfriend while having to deal with transphobia.