I’d strongly suggest looking through places like the Queer Zine Archive Project and the Digital Transgender Archive if you’re working on a project like that. FWIW I don’t think he coined the term Trans* at all, and it’s just fallen out of favour now. When I first figured things out at 12 in the early 2000s, it was a term used online a lot. Especially as Transsexual and Transgender were (genuinely) considered slightly divergent things. These days only Truscum seem to believe that though and Transsexual has definitively fallen out of favour too.
Thanks for the suggestion! I know he didn’t coin the term but he did write an article on his website trying to get people to use it. He definitely did grab it from the past but either didn’t realize or didn’t care that it has fallen out of usage.
I’d strongly suggest looking through places like the Queer Zine Archive Project and the Digital Transgender Archive if you’re working on a project like that. FWIW I don’t think he coined the term Trans* at all, and it’s just fallen out of favour now. When I first figured things out at 12 in the early 2000s, it was a term used online a lot. Especially as Transsexual and Transgender were (genuinely) considered slightly divergent things. These days only Truscum seem to believe that though and Transsexual has definitively fallen out of favour too.
Thanks for the suggestion! I know he didn’t coin the term but he did write an article on his website trying to get people to use it. He definitely did grab it from the past but either didn’t realize or didn’t care that it has fallen out of usage.