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This is technically correct as the use of transgender as an umbrella term began in the early 1990s, and that Virginia Prince coined it in the 1960s in opposition to "transsexual" and medical transition. https://twitter.com/country_jim/status/1309876501693820929
What Jane Clare Jones means here, however, is that the entire concept of being trasngender was invented in the 1990s out of whole cloth. That prior to 1990 no one currently described as "transgender" was known to exist. Transition? Invented in the 90s. She acknowledges that
gender variance existed prior to that point but not in the form as described by "transgender" which is sort of true and fairly false. Sort of true in that people were medically transitioning since at least 1920 and socially transitioning since forever ago, but weren't understood
in the same way they are now. Very false in that she seems to think that people like the person who wrote the account in this tweet didn't exist before the 1990s. https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/987171135535149056
cw: terf, transmisogyny
Or like Elagabalus who offered a very large reward to anyone who could figure out vaginoplasty in the third century CE.
This is the initial tweet. They're busy playing word games. And why I was right about not letting them dictate the terms of discussion
Or like Elagabalus who offered a very large reward to anyone who could figure out vaginoplasty in the third century CE.
This is the initial tweet. They're busy playing word games. And why I was right about not letting them dictate the terms of discussion
I did threads recently. Arguments like Jane's can't really be taken at face value. She's not trying to make the argument that trans people in the modern world are different from those of the past. She's trying to say trans people were invented in 1991. https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1309572243249192960
They're playing madlibs with our lives. They don't care about the truth, they just think they can rhetorically argue us out of existence because all they care about is eliminating us from public life. They're not seeking a better understanding. https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1309797208502403072
Just reminded of this thread which is also relevant. https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1304649108657823744
