Nothing I said mentioned an ideology.
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"Transgender" was coined to try to avert specific misconceptions John Oliven first used the term to try to combat the perception being trans was "sexual" in the sense of a "sexual fetish" Virginia Prince used it as her preferred term over "transvestite" for being "non-op"
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But if you can agree that the previous set of people described by "transsexual" didn't do it to pursue sexual gratification and often didn't pursue surgery or were of two minds about it - something Hirschfeld observed *in the 1930s* - then we can agree it's just a damn word
End of conversation
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