I 1984 havde idéen om et "transkønnet fællesskab" udviklet sig, og her blev ''transkønnet'' anvendt som et paraplybegreb.<ref>{{cite news |last=Peo, TV-TS Tapestry Board of Advisors |first=Roger E. |title=The 'Origins' and 'Cures' for Transgender Behavior |url=http://research.cristanwilliams.com/2012/03/08/1984-transgender-community-modern-transgender-community/ |access-date=28. maj 2012 |newspaper=The TV-TS Tapestry |year=1984 |issue=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407040646/http://research.cristanwilliams.com/2012/03/08/1984-transgender-community-modern-transgender-community/ |archive-date=7. april 2012 |df= }}</ref> I 1985 etablerede Richard Elkins "Trans-Gender Archive" ved Ulster Universitet.<ref name=TGP /> I 1992 definerede International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy ''transkønnethed'' ({{lang-en|transgender}}) som et større paraplybegreb, der inkluderede "transseksuelle, ''transgenderists'', cross dressers" og enhver der [[transition (transkønnethed)|er i transition]].<ref>{{cite web |title=First International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy (1992) |url=http://research.cristanwilliams.com/2012/03/19/1992-international-conference-on-transgender-law-and-employment-policy/ |work=organizational pamphlet |publisher=ICTLEP/ |access-date=28. maj 2012 |year=1992 |quote=Transgendered persons include transsexuals, transgenderists, and other crossdressers of both sexes, transitioning in either direction (male to female or female to male), of any sexual orientation, and of all races, creeds, religions, ages, and degrees of physical impediment. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330144938/http://research.cristanwilliams.com/2012/03/19/1992-international-conference-on-transgender-law-and-employment-policy/ |archive-date=30. marts 2012 |df= }}</ref> [[Leslie Feinberg]]'s pamflet, "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time has Come", i cirkulation i 1992, identificerede ''transgender'' som en betegnelse, som skulle forene alle former for nonkonformitet indenfor køn; på denne måde er ''transgender'' blevet synonymt med ''[[queer]]''.<ref>Stryker, Susan. "Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity". Radical History Review, Vol. 2008, No. 100. (Winter 2008), pp. 145–157</ref>
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