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[gfish]

Huh, wow. I guess I had the ability to generate impressive comment numbers all along! I promise I won't use this power for evil. Back to complaining about grad school and updates on silly side-projects.

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[cow.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I hadn't noticed that thread before (it happened after I read the post). That makes last night's thread idiocy make so much more sense (in, well, a relative way).

I'm not sure how old the term is, but it's definitely gaining more widespread use. A few years or so?

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, it's attested at least back to 1994, but yeah, it's grown in popularity of late.

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Primarily due to Serano's "Whipping Girl", which reached an audience beyond the trans community and their close partners, istr.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Wow. 15 years old. Do you happen to know offhand when "transgender" was first attested?

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

No, but I Have The Technology: the OED gives '1974 D. CORDELL in Rep. First National TV.TS Conf. 16 There is a tendency among trans-gender people to encourage each other. This precludes the very careful self-analysis which must take place in everyone who is proposing to undergo this therapy.' and '1983 K. E. STUART Uninvited Dilemma iii. 25 Gender conditions are quite different from sexual conditions or sexual preferences. The word transsexual is somewhat misleading, because the word sexual is incorporated into the term. Perhaps the word ‘transgender’ would have been a more suitable term.'

(n.b. 'cisgender' is not in the OED at all, its date is from wikipedia)

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Thanks!