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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

TRAs would just say that transgender wasn't used as a term at the time, or that the newspaper was dead naming him.

[–]odiusgay man[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To which I would say

  1. Transsexual was though, and transgender was gaining usage
  2. I don't think The Advocate, the most prominent gay and lesbian magazine in the US, would do any such thing

BTW, if anyone can find a source from when MPJ was alive calling her transgender or transsexual, or better, one of Marsha herself saying it, I'd love to see it, because literally everyone I've seen has called her gay, a drag queen, or a transvestite.