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[–]BiologyIsReal 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I see. Thanks for the correction! Though, that means that "gender identity" was indeed associated with transsexualism from the beginning.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's really hard to say exactly. Because these guys were communicating with one another, traveling back & forth to give lectures, writing papers & books, and reading & editing each other's work over a long, indeterminate period of time before their ideas were published in journals or as books with publication dates/time stamps on them.

Moreover, back then everything had to written out & typed up on paper & manuscripts had to be mailed or handed out, then edited or commented on, also on paper, & sent back to the sender. Which meant the back & forth between scholars was very different to today. And it all took a lot more time. In the case of male scholars, there was often an additional delay coz most of them couldn't type - and so they relied on women to take their handwritten works & neatly type them out so they would be legible to others.

Moreover, there used to be quite a long lag between the time an academic paper or book was finished by the author and when it was finally published. Even in commercial book publishing, it used to take - and still often takes - at least a year between the time an author hands in the work and when it's published.

Also, my sense has always been that before a neologism or novel concept first appears in printed work and is said to have been invented, it's often been in use in verbal communications more informally for quite a while.