1994 June 18, Denise Hudson, in SOC.SUPPORT.TRANSGENDERED CONSIDERED HARMFUL, in soc.support.transgendered, Usenet:
[T]he majority of these groups are discussing handicaps or illnesses. As someone who has suffered badly in the past from both shyness and stuttering, I do not regard either these two or the rest as being in the same logical box as transgenderness.
1998, Lees, in Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators (edited by Ronni L. Sanlo; Greenwood Publishing Group; →ISBN), page 37:
For the transgender student the time away at college is often the first chance to challenge the gender role assigned at birth and to decide how to integrate transgenderness into life as an adult.
2008, David Rayside, Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN):
One is the right to speak about homosexuality as an issue; the other is to disclose one's lesbianness, gayness, bisexuality, or transgenderness in a manner similar to the routine disclosures made by straight teachers.
2013, John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis, The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 382:
The music helps to make transgenderness a matter of the art of living, illuminating in general what it is to be a human being, rather than casting transgenderness as some strange medical (and psychiatric) condition. There might also be some gentle queer irony in the choice of American country music, traditionally considered very conservative and normative, as the music of transgenderness.
