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Gender issues stood at the forefront of the radical challenge Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002), 232.
the Cockettes, a group of singing, dancing, gender-fuck hippies Susan Stryker was the first person to mention the Cockettes to me. Two years later, the feature-length documentary The Cockettes, by David Weissman and Bill Weber, was released. The film was a nominee for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards and winner of Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics.
They were people who brought together clashing styles Author interview with Stryker, September 2001.
Many of us believed that the best way to eliminate the male/female divide Jay, Tales, 82.
a novel that reflects hir experience Feinberg prefers the use of non-gender-specific pronouns (hir, sie) and usage in these paragraphs reflects hir preference.
One day I came home from work Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1993), 135-36.
As much as I loved my beard as part of my body Ibid., 222.
strangers had raged at me for being a woman who crossed a forbidden boundary Ibid., 244.
the real Feinberg was denied medical treatment Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 2.
In May i£58, the Sunday Express of London Liz Hodgkinson, Michael, Nee Laura: The Story of the World’s First Female to Male Transsexual (London: Columbus Books, 1989), 137.
Proud of being a woman Mario Martino. Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977), 246.
For me, some of the hardest people to come out to Author interview with Ali Cannon, San Francisco, Calif., September 4, 2001.
It was really hard Author interview with Tom Kennard, San Francisco, Calif., September 5, 2001.
bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, cray Morgan quoted in Jay, Tales, 113. 167 I will not be your “nigger” any longer Del Martin quoted in Clendenin and
Nagourney, Out for Good, 96.
called on feminists to cut their ties with men Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good, 90.
for lesbians, the best thing that emerged from the Lavender Menace Jay, Tales, 145.
Man-hating … is an honorable and viable political act Morgan quoted in Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good, 166.
All transsexuals rape women’s bodies Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 104. For a response to Raymond, see Sandy Stone, “The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto,” in Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 336-59.
Raymond andMcHugh echo each other in characterising transsexualism as “an
ideology” Raymond, Transsexual Empire, 5. 169 and comparing sex-reassignment surgery to a lobotomy Ibid., 131. 169 it is biologically impossible to change chromosomal sex Ibid., 126. 169 Masculinity and femininity … are social constructs Ibid., 3.
The transsexual has not been adequately conditioned Ibid., 132.
We know that we are women who are born with female chromosomes Ibid., 114.
Transsexualism is thus the ultimate … conclusion of male possession Ibid., 30.
Female-to-male transsexual people … have been assimilated into the transsexual world Ibid., 27.
The Transsexual Empire is ultimately a medical empire Ibid., 119. 171 One hypothesis that is being tested Ibid., 140.
I have a newspaper article in my files Author interview with Stryker, September 2001.
John Ronald Brown, “presented himself as the champion of transsexuals”
Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed, 271.
He was exceedingly handsome Jan Morris, Conundrum (New York: Har- court, Brace,