Transphobia Since the 1970s

Janice Raymond’s ‘The Transsexual Empire’

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In 1972, Janice Raymond delivered a paper at the New England Regional Academy of Religion Meeting, and in 1977, she finished her doctoral dissertation on a similar topic. In 1979, Beacon Press published it as The Transsexual Empire.

It’s a transphobia classic. The book itself doesn’t give much background on how Raymond…