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'''Transgenderist''' is a word with multiple meanings. | '''Transgenderist''' is a word with multiple meanings. | ||
In the 1990s it was defined as meaning a person who "straddle[s] the gender boundaries" and "choose[s] to live as the [[third sex]]."<ref name="Wheelwright">{{Cite web |title=I'm just a sweet transgenderist |last=Wheelwright |first=Julie |work=The Independent |date=27 March 1995 |access-date=1 November 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html | In the 1990s it was defined as meaning a person who "straddle[s] the gender boundaries" and "choose[s] to live as the [[third sex]]."<ref name="Wheelwright">{{Cite web |title=I'm just a sweet transgenderist |last=Wheelwright |first=Julie |work=The Independent |date=27 March 1995 |access-date=1 November 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html}}</ref> In this sense it can be considered a precursor to the terms [[genderqueer]] and [[nonbinary]]. | ||
It may also be used more generically as a term for any transgender person, in which case it may be considered derogatory.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgenderist | It may also be used more generically as a term for any transgender person, in which case it may be considered derogatory.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgenderist</ref> | ||
At times "transgenderist" refers to a trans person who elects not to undergo any [[surgery]] as part of their [[transition]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Transsexual Workers: an Employer's Guide|year=2003| page=113|last=Walworth|first=Janis|quote=Some cross-gendered individuals who do not have surgery call themselves nonoperative transsexuals; others prefer the term ''transgenderist''.}}</ref> This sense of the word was coined by Dr. Virginia Prince, herself a transgenderist, who considered herself "in-between" a [[transsexual]] and a [[crossdresser]].<ref>"AEGIS News, No. 4 (June, 1995)." Page 9. Newsletter. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/9c67wm80s (accessed November 04, 2020).</ref> | At times "transgenderist" refers to a trans person who elects not to undergo any [[surgery]] as part of their [[transition]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Transsexual Workers: an Employer's Guide|year=2003| page=113|last=Walworth|first=Janis|quote=Some cross-gendered individuals who do not have surgery call themselves nonoperative transsexuals; others prefer the term ''transgenderist''.}}</ref> This sense of the word was coined by Dr. Virginia Prince, herself a transgenderist, who considered herself "in-between" a [[transsexual]] and a [[crossdresser]].<ref>"AEGIS News, No. 4 (June, 1995)." Page 9. Newsletter. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/9c67wm80s (accessed November 04, 2020).</ref> | ||