'I just happened to be a pregnant man'. Transgender, een begrip dat niet (een) is
Auteurs
Marieke van Eijk
Jos Motmans
Samenvatting
this term to distinguish herself from crossdressing
The term transgender has gone through a
remarkable transition since Virginia Prince
coined the term in the early 1980s. She usedand from transsexuality. Nowadays
transgender has come to call attention to an
imagined community of people who, in one
way or the other, transcend boundaries of
gender, sex, sexuality and physicality. However,
despite the usefulness to indicate and
embrace differences in terms of gender and
sex, this umbrella term also carries some
fearful contradictions. In this introduction
these inherent contradictions are pointed out
by paying attention to the development of the
term as coined in the 1980s in relation to the
emergence of the multidisciplinary field of
transgender studies.