Transgenderist

After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which is compatible with the kind of life style we wish to achieve.

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Perhaps the most surprising and controversial issue to emerge was that of “transpeople." Transpeople, as defined by the highly articulate Houston based Transpeople Caucus are “transexuals, transgenderists, transvestites, drag queens, and female impersonators." Phyllis Frye, a transgenderist from Houston, in fact opened the welcoming Friday night session. The original motion made by this caucus called for, “the term Gay Transpeople to be included in all statements...The demands as well as policy and media coverage.” They also called for the changing of the name of the March to read “Lesbians, Gay Males and Gay Transpeople’s March on Washington."

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Finally, since all of this comes out of my own experience and my own thinking, when one gets to the transgenderist posi­tion, which is where I am now, I can set up housekeeping right in the middle, if I want, and look and act womanly until a “fence” gets in my way — and then vault over it and go on my way with­out any feelings of inappropri­ateness, or “what will people think,” or, “that wasn’t very feminine” type of thinking. I’m just very satisfied to be ME, a position that incorporates all of me, both left, right and middle.

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Going further than the one-dimensional femininity of the transvestite and cross-dresser, many transgenderists mix and match, blending as much femininity or masculinity with its opposite into new gender recipes.

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