Timeline

From T-Vox

A chronological summary of important events. This history is by no means exhaustive and may have strong bias towards transsexual-specific information.

[edit] Timeline of trans and gender variant history

1910 - According to Harry Benjamin, Magnus Hirschfeld reputedly coins the term transvestite, referring to any person who habitually wears clothes of the opposite sex, including both [[phenotype|phenotypal] males and females.
1917 - Dr Alan Hart is the first recorded FtM to transition. A study of the transition is later published in 1920 (J. Allen Gilbert, Homosexuality and Its Treatment, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 52, p.297-322).
1919 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin, which becomes a treatment centre for trans people of a sort.
1933 - The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft is shut down by the Nazis and it's libraries destroyed. Researchers flee and Hirschfeld dies 2 years later in exile.
1930s - Sex hormones discovered by a variety of doctors (Oestrogen by Adolf Butenandt, for which he won a nobel prize later).
c. 1938 - First synthetic oestrogen (Di-ethyl Stilbesterol) developed. Later found to cause serious health issues (including cancer, endometreosis, and possibly intersex syndrome^{[citation needed]} amongst children of women prescribed it whilst pregnant).
1941 - Premarin® (a form of oestrogen derived from the urine of catheterised pregnant mares) first marketed in Canada.
1944-5 - Harold Gillies adapts wartime surgical techniques to use in a prototypical form of FTM surgery, proving to be a crucial advance in the field.
1949 - Harry Benjamin apparently treats a "boy" who "wants to be a girl", referred to him by Alfred Kinsey following Kinsey's study on male sexuality, with Premarin®, which apparently has a calming effect on the child.
1966 - Harry Benjamin publishes The Transsexual Phenomenon, a leading textbook on the subject of transsexuality for the next couple of decades.
1968 - The Olympic Committee introduces chromosome testing, effectively banning transsexuals and some intersexed people from competition in the games.
1969 - Trans and gender variant people are at the heart of the Stonewall Riots, a catalyst for the creation of the Gay Rights [sic] movement.
1970 - In UK, a the judge presiding over the Corbett vs Corbett case rules that the legal gender of transsexuals is immutably set by their birth certificates.
1972 - John Money asserts that gender identity is nurtured rather than natured^{[citation needed]}.
1979 - Janice Raymond publishes "The Transsexual Empire", a work declaring all transsexuals to be rapists, which, despite wide criticism for her dishonest misuse of quotations and general bad scholarship of the piece, becomes an influential text for transphobes amongst the radical feminist movement.
1993 - Cheryl Chase founds Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
2004 - Gender Recognition Act becomes law in Britain, restoring some rights for some transsexuals that had been removed in Corbett vs Corbett.