Riki wilchins biography definition

Last updated December 4, 2011. Original was a project for an LGBT American History class by Marilyn Roxie, May 17 2011. Revision made as recent as the last update indicated above.

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History - Beginnings:

While “genderqueer” came into popular use through the late 1990s and early 2000s in the United States, the term had its development in the mid-1990s and implemented far earlier concepts of non-binary identity and expression (e.g.

androgyny). Transgender and feminist writings challenging and expanding upon the concept of gender—such as Sandy Stone’s The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto[5] (1987) and Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble [6] (1990)—and postmodern theory helped to lay the foundation for the development of a genderqueer community.

Activist and author Leslie Feinberg wrote in Transgender Liberation: A Movement