Charting Identities

via Google Labs:

Apparently, transsexuals and transvestites are waning, and transgender is ascendant. Not that we didn’t know that, but there it is in red green and blue.

I like the way dyke has remained a subcultural word (consistently small percentages over time), while I assume queer went from being used in the “odd or weird” way to the current meaning, dipping in the late 80s/early 90s.

Counted as Trans

Nepal has created a ‘transgender’ category for their census. And before the traditional transsexual people get upset, no one is required to identify as trans, and the category was added in response to LGBT rights legislation (which passed in 2008).

It’s more than the US managed, that’s for sure.