Culture Revised Transgender History Book Is Readable, Entertaining - But Only With The Seperate Purchase Of A Lobotomy. Also Mentions The War Of The Girldicks!

Author, Susan Stryker (Previously Kurtis Stryker from the Mortal Kombat series.)

It had to start somewhere.

Someone had to make the first step, to pave the way, to stick a fork into the ground and say, “Here, now.” Someone had to be the first so that others could follow, and in the newly updated book “Transgender History” by Susan Stryker, you’ll see where we go next.

Opening a history book with a chapter on terms and words might seem odd but, says Susan Stryker, “remarkable changes” over the last decade demand it. Thus begins this book, with new language for what is an old issue.

Indeed, America’s first recorded “intersex” individual was Thomas(ine) Hall, who lived in the 1620s, “sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman.” Seventy years later, however, the colony of Massachusetts made “cross dressing” illegal and it spread: by the 1850s, many U.S. cities had ordinances against dressing in clothing normally worn by the opposite sex.

And yet, it was hard to stop people who wanted to dress as or fully transition to another gender. Throughout the 1800s, records show that women dressed as men for battle, cross dressers braved the frontier, men ran away from their families to be true to their feminine selves and Native American cultures embraced transgender people. Says Stryker, after anesthesia was invented and surgeries were safer, “individuals began approaching doctors to request surgical alteration of … parts of their bodies.”

For a time, then, the movement was relatively quiet by necessity, as the Nazis proved when they torched Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin — until American Christine Jorgensen “burst onto the scene” in late 1952 when she traveled to Copenhagen for trans surgery. Her ensuing fame didn’t signal full acceptance for trans people, but it was a start. Riots in 1959 led to activism in the 1960s, and post-Stonewall groups consolidated to lend support and work through “difficult decades” of the ‘70s, ‘80s and the AIDS crisis. Today, says Stryker, though we live in interesting times of Trump and turmoil, the news is heartening. Millennials and “post-Baby Boomers” have expressed more acceptance of “transgender as part of the anti-heteronormative mix.”

Though “Transgender History” is a revised edition of a book first published a decade ago, it has a fresh feel thanks to that which author Susan Stryker has added. The first chapter, somewhat of a dictionary, schools readers on new ways of talking about LGBT issues and individuals, while the last chapter of trans history brings readers up to the present, including topics of politics, potties and celebrity.

What makes it unusual is that, though it’s not always chronological, it’s breezy and casually readable. There’s no stuffiness here and no air of the scholarly. Stryker makes this history accessible for people who want a story and not a textbook.

And so, this book is a pleasant surprise. It’s easy to read, not overly wordy, and there are a just-right number of illustrations here for a reader’s enjoyment. For anyone who wants a basic, yet lively, overview of trans life in America, “Transgender History” is a great start.

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[Positron]

This concerns me. Throughout history, yes, people have crossdressed. Women especially. However--and I've had this argument multiple times over the past few years--crossdressing does not equal transgenderism.

We need a geneology of troonism, Foucault style, that exposes troonism as a very recent (not heard before the 1970s) phenomenon and is a direct result of the spread of liberal politics.

Special mention to this segment, where they claim that even the word "transsexual" is oppressive.

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They bamboozle you with terminologies they coin themselves; they dream up bizarre re-definitions of everyday words; they make big fusses over difference so minute that you can't even see with a microscope; they denounce words randomly with "it hurts feelings" as justification -- until, eventually, you have enough with their linguistic legerdemain that your mind just shut down and let yourself be turned into their parrot.

This is how cults work.

 

[Slowboat to China]

We need a geneology of troonism, Foucault style, that exposes troonism as a very recent (not heard before the 1970s) phenomenon and is a direct result of the spread of liberal politics.

IMO (and I'm not a real historian, so don't quote me on this) it would be a very, very difficult proposition to trace transgenderism throughout human history. We have so many examples of societies that were organized so very differently from the modern world (hell, consider the modern rejection of pedophilia versus Spartans' "it's not gay if you're on top of the kid" or the Japanese shudo master-apprentice relationships), and everyone involved is so very distant and dead, that there's really no way to be sure of anything. How do we separate the issue of trans history from, say, the cult of Cybele's practice of public self-castration?

For example, Elagabalus has only recently been claimed as trans: previous generations saw his antics as just another example of late Imperial Roman degeneracy, or the people defending Rome's reputation saw it as the result of his Asiatic upbringing. There's simply no way to be sure, and until we invent a time machine or find the guy's secret diary, we'll never be sure. Special-interest history just ends up muddying the water.

(I just learned that Joan of Arc is being claimed as trans, because she wore men's clothes while at war.)

Now if you mean troonism as in transtrender/transgender faddism, we're on firmer ground there. It's no coincidence that, in Western culture, transtrending didn't really kick off until a) the demolition of many old forms of identity, and b) the rise of the oppression Olympics. Now people go looking for an identity, and like the lost souls that get sucked into cults, end up coming to the conclusion that everything that's wrong with their lives can be solved with HRT. Or, in the case of Tumblr, hair dye and pronouns.

Sorry for the TL;DR. But really, this whole book should just be stamped "[Citation needed]".

 

[The Great Chandler]

Why’s it not always chronological? Ignoring everything else with this, shouldn’t a history book follow a chronological order?

In that case, it'll make a "non-linear" Tarantino film look more linear.

 

[Polish Hot Dog (spicie)]

so now crossdressing is intersex.

Amazing.

Purportedly, he/she actually was intersex
Slept around though, so......
?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(ine)_Hall
No idea who wrote this and I haven't bothered to check the sources, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt, but the judge prosecuting him said he should be taken as both man and woman after lookin at his genitals