John Mark Ockerbloom

Just noticed some recent changes in #LCSH terms. The headings "Transgender people" and "Transsexuals" have been replaced by "Trans people", and "Transsexualism" has been replaced by "Transness".

Depending on vendor, your library catalog may have automatically made these changes, or you might need to make manual changes. Also, because "Transsexuals" was a term separate from "Transgender people" beforehand, your system might not have auto-replaced both with "Trans people", so it's worth checking.

May 26 at 4:04pmWeb
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(Similar changes have been made to terms based on these ones, so there are now headings for "Transgender people's writings", "Transgender people in literature", etc.)
Show threadJohn Mark OckerbloomMay 26
These term name changes will take effect in the Online Books Page's curated collection tonight. It will take a bit longer for relationships between these and other terms to be established, and for extended shelves listings to be updated. (My subject graph is still based on a March 2025 LCSH dump, the last one before the name changes pushed through for the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. I'll need to think a bit about how to handle things going forward.)