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If you haven't heard, October is TBLG History Month in the US.   One of the things I'm going to be diligent about this month is not only ensuring that the trans community isn't erased, but the POC end of it isn't whitewashed out of the narrative.

So to get this party started I'm going to post links to previous Black Trans history posts I've written at TransGriot to make it easy to access them.

I'm also going to come out this month with new TransGriot Ten Questions interviews some of you have told me you want to see more of from our chocolate trans icons in addition to posting the previous ones..

The TransGriot is going to do her part to ensure that the 'T' is not only capitalized during this month, it has soul as well.

The First Annual TransGriot African-American Trans History Quiz

The 1965 Dewey's Lunch Counter Sit In

TransGriot GLBT History Links

This Is How Whitewashing Us Out Of GLBT History Begins

Trans Activism Is 'Too New'?  Bull Feces


African-American Transgender History 50's Style

Sir Lady Java-Trans Civil Rights Warrior

Black Trans History: Lucy Hicks Anderson

Devastating Ballroom Beauties

Where Africa?

Black Transpeople Are Making Black History, Too

Who Was The First African-American Transwoman?

Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important 

One of the things that is not well known is that the Lone Star State not only has significant clusters of trans people in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Houston,  but trans Texans come from and reside in cities from the Panhandle, East and West Texas to the Rio Grande Valley. 

We trans Texans have been driving forces in terms of shaping and providing innovative leadership inside and outside the state and for the national trans community as the five IFGE Trinity Award winners that have resided in the state are testimony to.

What set off this latest round of Texas bragging is Cristan unearthing another nugget of trans history with a Lone Star twist to it.    It's a 1936 article in a Dallas newspaper that announced a successful Female to Male surgery on a 15 year old patient

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1936 News: Dallas Physician Reports Sex Change Operation As Successful #gender #history
USED SURGERY TO CHANGE SEX

Dallas Physician Reports Sex Change Operation As Successful

DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 17 (UP) — Dr. A. E. Hill, assistant Dallas county health officer, described today what he termed a successful operation to change the sex of a girl to that of a boy.

The patient, a 15-year-old ward of the county, underwent the operation several months ago Dr. Hill said and now is gradually assuming the physical properties of a man.

Dr. Hill said “the patient was known as Theresa, but now has adopted’ the name of Tony and is developing a beard, a thick growth of hair on chest and legs and a masculine voice.”

Dr. Hill revealed the operation after hearing of recent similar cases In Europe.

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Interesting...  

As you regular TransGriot readers know, I'm considered Public Enemy Number One by the Transsexual Taliban because I'm opposed to their attempted redefinition of transsexual to mean anybody who hasn't had SRS.   I am firmly in opposition to their attempts to narrowcast civil rights for trans people.that would be deleterious to trans people of color and transpeople who don't have the money to get surgery, and the fact that they use remixed radical lesbian feminist rhetoric to attack anyone who doesn't agree with their misguided point of view.

They presume I hate them, but I'd have to care about them to hate them.  

Now that's out of the way, let's move on to more important TransGriot business shall we?  


Cristan Williams, the ED of the Houston based Transgender Foundation of America has been doing a series of posts concerning the transgender umbrella.term.  The TFA also has a trans history archive, and she's putting it to good use unearthing evidence that the transgender umbrella term was coined and in common usage before 1990.  



It also wasn't created by Virginia Prince as the loud and wrong WWBT's claim it was..  


Here's her latest post from her blog with more of what she has discovered about the transgender umbrella term origins.