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Female Eonism And Gender Identity

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There is no one story of being trans. As the words trans and transgender become increasing visible in our world, the need to define them and clarify them becomes more urgent.

History has seen the word transgender evolve over time. In the late 1910's the word eonism, in honor Chevalier d’Éon, was used to define a man with female mannerisms. In the 1940's and 1950's the word transgender appeared more frequently and was used to describe a man who presented as a woman. At the time the word was even interchangeable with transsexual.

In the 1990's, Virginia Price and Yvonne Cook-Riley started the use of the word transgender as an umbrella term that included varied combinations of gender identity and expression. And as time has gone on, some have
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