Discovering really illuminating stuff in my Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course. For example, I didn’t realize the hugely problematic origins of the term “transgender.”
Apparently, Virginia Prince proposed that “transgender” replace the term “transsexual” (in 1979) because “people could never change their essential biological sex, no matter what they did to their bodies. She believed that genital surgery would not change a person’s sex, and therefore the status of ‘transsexual’ is an impossibility.”
(quoted from McKenna and Kessler’s “Transgendering: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender”
