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sbelikeswords · 2 years

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Do you have voice dysphoria? If so, you're not alone - a lot of #girlslikeus do. And it's easy to understand why. Many girls feel like their voice is the most clockable thing about them. There's of course nothing wrong with being trans - I hope the last four years of daily essays on transness I've posted here on the gram have made that clear. But if your voice bothers you, it can cause dysphoria and low self esteem. But it doesn't have to be that way. I can help. In case you're new to this page, welcome. I'm Sophie Edwards - a writer, a trans history YouTuber, and a professional voice feminization coach. If you're a trans woman or transfem nonbinary person, I can help you find a voice you love. You don't have to be stuck with a voice you hate forever - I can help. Slide into my DMs and book a session - the first one is FREE. I'll answer all your questions, talk about my process, and we'll see if there's a fit to work together. Book your FREE introductory voice feminization session with me, Sophie Edwards, today, and let's work toward finding your true voice. Book your FREE introductory session today.

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 2 years

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Anyone who calls lgbtq+ folks “gr👀mers” deserves to be confronted with the fact that this was a Nazi talking point. Among the first books targeted for burning by the Nazis were about gender and sexuality, including the groundbreaking work of gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld (pictured in photo 2 having a Christmas party with his transgender friends). It’s unclear if anyone repeating this lie will care about this being a well-worn fascist talking point, but nonetheless it’s imperative that respond to attacks on lgbtq identity. They are the opening salvo of fascism. Christofascists would rather lgbtq+ people live in fear because then they can go back to their children believing there’s no future for them if they are lgbtq+ themselves. To them, “gr👀ming” is simply knowing that lgbtq people exist and can live happy, normal lives. #nazis #fascism #christofascism #rightwing #homophobia #gender #humansexuality #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #weimargermany #magnushirschfeld #transhistory #transgender #gayhistory #lgbthistory #queerhistory #transphobia #propaganda #jewishhistory #shoah #holocaust #nazism #gop #republican #trumpism https://www.instagram.com/p/ChU4aLguz4k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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archivelgbt · 1 year

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159 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1864, the Rutland Weekly Herald reports of 150 military recruits who were discovered to be women, who were banned from serving. During this period, it was not uncommon for women to dress as men for economic reasons, such as better jobs and pay. While this does not inherently make any of them queer or trans, it does speak to the willingness of people at the time to challenge rigid gender roles in order to improve their lives. Other records show some were clearly transgender people who went beyond economic motives and wanted to live fully as themselves.

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #history #TransHistory #QueerHistory #OTD

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #history #TransHistory #Trans History #Transgender #Queer #Queer History #Transgender History

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danepopfrippery · 5 months

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@thenormanlear died today at 101. First glance you may go wtf is he doin here? Bigots and all? No actually Lear was wildly progressive for the time and place, including having what may very well have been the first openly #trans character on his show #allinthefamily Beverly La Salle. Her first episode is in 1975 and she appeared 3 times total ending in 1977.

Now its 1975 so if you do watch it the language is now offensive (a truth for much of the show that mocked bigots) and La Salle is at best called the now offensive #transvestite . Female impersonator was also used. Beverly is mostly a #dragqueen but the actress Lori Shannon lived as what we’d call trans now, performing as a drag queen and writing columns for the newspaper.

Her first ep is the most meaty, #archiebunker is driving a cab and saves her life with cpr. Ofc he goes from lothario to joke when its noted that she wasnt born she. Gross i know. But #edithbunker adores her and through the rough plot line a lot of humanity is shown for the time and place.

2nd ep she says hi and her and Edith are penpala. Archie is sick of being pranked by a jerk friend and asks her to prank him as not really a lady (again gross). The friend had seen her perform and knows her so they make a plan to drive Archie crazy.

Third ep shes barely in and yet its the saddest and best storyline. She visits dressed cis, shes playing the Met and taking Edith. Mike goes with her to meet a friend at the subway. Bigots mock her and Mike tells them to fuck off. They get violent. Mike almost dies but Beverly steps in to save him and she is killed for it. The ep is a two parter #xmas special where sweet Edith loses faith in a god for taking her friend just for being different. Yes i bawled.

These eps are s6e4, s7e8, s8ep 13-14.

Irl Lori Shannon didnt die by violence or aids as much of the 80s did to so many others. She sadly died a day before valentines day, 1984 age 45 of a heart attack.

#transhistory #transgender #lgbtq #queer #queerhistory #trans #queertv #lgbtqrights

#norman lear #archie bunker #edith bunker #beverly la salle #lori shannon #all in the family #1975 #queer #lgbtq #trans #trans history #transgender #drag queen #lgbtq history

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usernamesarehard1 · 1 month

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JK Rowling is at it again

#fuck jkr #fuck jk rowling #lgbt #lgbtqia #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #lgbt history #lgbtq history #lgbtq rights #trans history #jessica kellgren fozard #tw nazi germany #tw genocide

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nando161mando · 1 month

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Reminder that the nazis did in fact target trans people and other queers.

https://youtube.com/shorts/U4Nn6sgqYTI

JK Rowling is at it again

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dissociatingdumbass · 1 month

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JK Rowling is at it again

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juliansdiary2 · 10 months

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Happy Pride Month here is some Trans History

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#pink diamond nation #julian’s diary #trans #trans history #history #gay history #happy pride month #pride month #lgbtqia plus history #lgbtqia plus

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itgetsbetterproject · 3 years

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For #WomensHistoryMonth, learn about Lucy Hicks Anderson! . Born in 1886 in Kentucky, Lucy expressed her feminine identity from a young age, and preferred to be called "Lucy" over her birth name. Doctors encouraged her parents to follow suit and raise her as the girl she was. . As an adult in the 1920's, Lucy married her first husband and gained a reputation as a socialite, hosting lavish dinner parties, winning baking contents with her chef skills, and running a boarding house that secretly sold liquor during Prohibition. . After her second marriage, she was tried for perjury in an argument that accused her of "failing to disclose" that she had been assigned male at birth on her marriage license. Though she was convicted, she and her husband lived out a peaceful life in Los Angeles, and her trial laid the groundwork for the fight for marriage equality to come in later years.

#itgetsbetter #transgender #trans #transwomen #transwomenarewomen #womenshistory #lgbtqhistory #lucy hicks anderson #transhistory

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pittrarebooks · 2 years

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A Guide to Perfecting Femininity: Virginia Prince’s “How to Be a Woman Though Male”

This post was written by Tayler Fane, a recipient of an Archival Scholar Research Award for the 2022 Spring Semester.

“[By embracing your femmeself], you will…put yourself that much nearer the future—not a time when all men will wear skirts, they are only symbols, but a time when the polarization of our present culture will have been vastly modified; to a time when all people—males and females alike—will be able to express their reactions to a given environmental or emotional situation by whatever means and mechanisms seem appropriate and satisfying to them at the moment” (Prince 117).

(Above) Author photograph of Virginia Prince, featured in How To Be a Woman Though Male, 1987.

Virginia Prince (1912-2009) was a self-proclaimed “transgenderist” educator and activist who dedicated her time to providing information for heterosexual crossdressers. As the founder of Transvestia, a magazine dedicated to creating a social and educational resource for crossdressers to communicate and share their stories, Prince helped create a sense of belonging within the crossdressing community for 20 years. Prince also founded the Alpha Chapter of the Foundation for Full Personality Expression (FPE) which became the Society for the Second Self, or Tri Ess, in 1975.

(Above) Cover of How To Be a Woman Though Male, 1987.

At 55, Virginia Prince began living as a woman full-time. A few years after transitioning, Prince first published her influential book How To Be a Woman Though Male in 1971. Archives & Special Collections at the University of Pittsburgh Libraries holds an edition of the 6th printing from 1987. This book acted as a guide for heterosexual crossdressers, providing information on the physical, cosmetic, and aesthetic elements of fully embracing one’s feminine self and how to successfully pass as a “real” woman.

The book is split into 14 chapters. The first 11 give readers tips and tricks on how to dress, accessorize and behave in manners that emphasize one’s feminine traits and suppress one’s masculine traits. While Prince did not believe that crossdressing required one to abandon their masculine traits completely, she did believe that the goal of crossdressing was to be as good looking a woman as possible, which requires careful attention to the details that help flatter and femininize one’s appearance to create a realistic transformation.

(Above) “Useful Hair Styles I” illustration on page 38 of How To Be a Woman Though Male, 1987.

(Above) “Size charts” on page 83 of How To Be a Woman Though Male, 1987.

In the last three chapters of How To Be a Woman Though Male, Prince provides her insight on the distinction between sex and gender and the difference between transgender and transsexual identities. While transgender and transsexual essentially mean the same thing today, these two terms represented two different experiences of transness in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Prince believed that a little boy’s desire to “be a girl” was not the same as the desire to “be a female,” and that the distinction between the two was crucial to fully understanding transgender and transsexual identities. Prince argued that most individuals who found themselves longing to transition only wanted to adopt the gender, or patterns of behavior and social roles, of their counterparts, and that sex was rarely considered or acknowledged in these feelings. Because of this, Prince argued that most folks could satisfy these feelings by simply crossdressing or learning to live as a woman full-time and that surgeries to affirm one’s gender was often misguided and unnecessary to transition.

While some of Virginia Prince’s views of the trans community do not reflect what we believe and know today, her works provided crucial information that helped pioneer trans research and community building. Prince’s activism and dedication to her community is the blueprint for how embracing one’s identity also entails giving back to your community and helping others reach that same sense of self-love and acceptance. Prince book How To Be a Woman Though Male as well as issues of her magazine Transvestia can be found at the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Pittsburgh.

Works Cited

Prince, Virginia. How To Be a Woman Though Male. Chevalier Publications, 1987.

“Virginia Prince & Transvestia.” University of Victoria, https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/collections/virgina-prince/index.php.

#transvestia #transhistory #archives #asra #ASRA2022 #virginiaprince #specialcollections #lgbt

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karadin · 2 years

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in case you thought Trans people were a recent development

#trans #transhistory

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sbelikeswords · 2 years

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I was recently reading about the gallae, the transgender Roman priestesses of the goddess Cybele, and it blows my mind how utterly ridiculous cis people are when they write about us - even the ones who don't openly hate us. . The gallae castrated themselves and lived as women their entire lives, it's about as unambiguously trans as anything you'll find in the ancient world. So why do cis writers have such a hard time calling it as such? . One of the cis writers I read interpreted them as wanting to be free of the pressure of a male social role. Which, lol. Just lol. . Another said that a few of them might have felt trans, but they were probably mostly cis men who FELT THE SPIRITUAL CALL TO CYBELE. . And I'm sorry but never in the history of humanity has a cis man ever felt so religious that he castrated himself and lived as a woman. Never. . So why is that the default? . Why is it SO hard for cis people to believe that transness has always existed? . Why do otherwise intelligent, respectable writers and researchers tie themselves in knots to wave away transness that's more than a couple dozen years old? . . . . . #transhistory #transgenderhistory #lgbthistory #queerhistory #transbeauty #transwomen #transgirls #transgirlsrock #transgendergirl #transgenders #transgenderpride🌈 #transgenderfemale #transgenderwomen #transgenderawareness #transgendercommunity #transwriter #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writersden #queerlove #queerwomen #queerfemme #queergirl #lgbtaccount #lgbtq2s #queerwriters #transwoman #transwriters #transgirlsarerealgirls #transmotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CeoLuGQuoyK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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harvardfineartslib · 3 years

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42 years ago today, the Christopher Gay Liberation Day Parade took place in New York City. This image shows two legendary transgender activists, Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) and Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002).

In 1971, Rivera and Johnson formed Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), the first political organization dedicated to fostering and supporting the rights of trans people in the United States. STAR gave food and shelter to the homeless and transgender youth, many of whom were, like Rivera and Johnson, low-income people of color who lived out on the West Side piers in Manhattan. Living on the streets and engaged in survival sex, Johnson, a self-identified drag queen, suffered from mental illness and was arrested more than 100 times and shot once. At the time of the gay liberation movement after the Stonewall Rebellion, trans people and sex workers, especially those of color like Johnson and Rivera, were marginalized within the gay community, even while they played a key role in the movement. (summarized from Cruising the Dead Riverand Wikipedia)

“The limited visibility of this queer history of the piers reflects the persistent exclusion of this trans community from many of the predominantly gay spaces and activist groups in the West Village at the time.” (p.148)

Together, Johnson and Rivera advocated for queer and transgender youth and fought for the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York. The Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, credit, and the exercise of civil rights.

New York City has announced the installation of a permanent monument to honor the legacy of Johnson and Rivera, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2021. (New York Times, Julia Jacob, March 29, 2019).

Image: Sylvia Rivera (holding banner) and Marsha P. Johnson (far left) at the Christopher Gay Liberation Day Parade, New York, June 24, 1973

Cruising the dead river : David Wojnarowicz and New York's ruined waterfront Anderson, Fiona, 1985- [author] Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 195 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm English HOLLIS number: 99153843583703941

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archivelgbt · 1 year

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138 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1885, the Indianapolis Journal published a letter to the editor which described several examples of intersex and/or transgender people in history close to the time of publication. These included Dr. James Barry, an English surgeon, as well as Levi Suydam, an intersex person whose vote determined an election in the 1840s.

#OTD #LGBTQHistory #IntersexHistory #TransgenderHistory #TransHistory #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #history

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gaybigay · 3 years

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Happy Thursday! Hold on you're almost to Friday!!!! Today we finish our summary of Stone Butch Blues, there are some plot twists incoming 👀. Join us as we talk about this deeply rich novel (that Aliyah is STILL obsessed with). Find this episode at the link in our bio! --------------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #podcaster #podcasting #podcastnetwork #spotifypodcast #anchorpodcast #googlepodcasts #applepodcasts #pride2021 #pride🌈 #lgbt #butch #stonebutch #stonebutchblues #lesliefeinberg #lesbianhistory #transhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CQg9o6tnAWl/?utm_medium=tumblr

#podcast #podcaster #podcasting #podcastnetwork #spotifypodcast #anchorpodcast #googlepodcasts #applepodcasts #pride2021 #pride🌈#lgbt #butch #stonebutch #stonebutchblues #lesliefeinberg #lesbianhistory #transhistory

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blackfirstblog · 3 years

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Hello, I Am Black First

My name is not important right now. Neither is my gender. My sexual orientation can be convoluted at times. My age is not the issue. If I told you it would cause a fuss no matter what. I’m above ground. That should be good enough.

I am black first. It is a color, but much more than that. On an interview, I am black first. At school, I am black first. In society, no matter how much money I have or do not have, I am black first. Young, old, male, female, foreign, or domestic whichever way you pick I am black first. Nothing can change how I am and will be seen, therefore I’d like to allow you into precisely what I see.

Whether you are white or black I’m going to recount current events with you and tell you my perspective. I will offer suggestions on what will make things better for my people as a whole. I hope one day someone who can make a difference gets a hold of my words and implements them as policy in the United States.

As a people my people have endured far too much. The worst is yet to come if nothing is done. I feel like the chosen one. I will keep this blog as a blueprint to what could be for us. I’m tired of bottling my feelings. I cannot remain silent any longer about the things that happen to us. I cannot remain comfortable without a plan. I will strategize a plan for our survival in America. I will be candid about if remaining is futile. Take this journey with me.

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