Who put the "trans" in transgender? Gender theory and everyday life

International Journal of Transgenderism

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Kessler, Suzanne ^a   McKenna, Wendy ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENDER IDENTITY; PENIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSSEXUALISM; VAGINA;

EID: 3342965111     PISSN: 14344599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Virginia Prince should probably be credited as having introduced the term "transgender." Because she needed a term to describe her decision to become a woman without changing her genitals (what she would call her "sex,") the term "transsexual" would not do. C.F. Prince, Virginia. 1979. "Charles to Virginia: Sex Research as a Personal Experience." In The Frontiers of Sex Research. ed. Vern Bullough, 167-175. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
2. Kessler, Suzanne, and Wendy McKenna. 1978. Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. New York: Wiley.