The usage of Prince was specifically, and intentionally to separate her and those like her from transsexuals. Furthermore, the term she used was transgenderist. Her reasoning for using was literally to say that she (and those like her) were not transsexuals. Remember, she had a strong and abiding lifelong dislike of transsexuals. In her mind, getting away from them, being disassocaited with them, was important.
And she failed.
It wasn't until a transsexual woman wrote a very popular book using the term several times in the mid 1980's that it gained any sort of application as an umbrella concept and political identity class.
As for Point two:
you may seriously want to consider taking your struggle to the publishers of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and the media outlets, as well as GLAAD and similar orgs, because, like it or not, they are the ones who are using enforcing the terminology.
Re: Two points
The usage of Prince was specifically, and intentionally to separate her and those like her from transsexuals. Furthermore, the term she used was transgenderist. Her reasoning for using was literally to say that she (and those like her) were not transsexuals. Remember, she had a strong and abiding lifelong dislike of transsexuals. In her mind, getting away from them, being disassocaited with them, was important.
And she failed.
It wasn't until a transsexual woman wrote a very popular book using the term several times in the mid 1980's that it gained any sort of application as an umbrella concept and political identity class.
As for Point two:
you may seriously want to consider taking your struggle to the publishers of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and the media outlets, as well as GLAAD and similar orgs, because, like it or not, they are the ones who are using enforcing the terminology.