Towards a TS dictionary -- the letters Jj, Kk

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Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (=Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types) was published annually by the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), the early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured articles on scientific, literary, and political topics related to sexual and gender minorities. It was published regularly from 1899 to 1923 (sometimes quarterly) and more sporadically until 1933

Jenda

1. a) A sarcastic respelling of ‘gender’, popular with some anti-trans feminists. It reflects an antagonism to the usage of ‘gender’ by trans activists.
2. b) the Japanese Romaji spelling of Gender.

Jewel Box Revue

A travelling Drag Revue founded in Miami in 1939 by lovers Doc Brenner and Danny Brown. It toured for 30 years and was the best known of its kind in the US. They preferred the terms Feminine impressionists and Femme mimics. Although the management and performers were gay, the show was aimed at Straight audiences, winning acceptance through comedy. The performers would tell interviewers of wives and girlfriends, but they were largely fictional. They pioneered the practice of one Male Impersonater to act as MC. Almost uniquely at that time, the Revue employed white, black, Latino and indigenous performers. It made an unprecedented tour of the black theater circuit.

Jogappa

A tradition in the Hubli-Dharwad region of North Karnataka, India, where gender-fluid and trans woman are perceived as possessed by the Goddess Yellamma. Jogappas are more respected than Hijras. Many are taken as children usually from dalit or other ‘backward’ castes, sometimes even from Muslim families in northern Karnataka, who are dedicated to the Goddess Yellamma. They wear female clothes and act as mediators between devotees and the Goddess. They are forbidden to marry.

Jogti hijras

In Maharashtra and Karnataka, jogtas and jogtis are male and female temple servants whose lives are dedicated to gods in different temples. Jogti hijras are those who are trans.

John

1. a) a prostitute’s client
2. b) a toilet

Johns Hopkins Psychohormonal Research Unit (PRU) & Gender Identity Clinic, Baltimore

Following on from the genital reconstructive surgery done by Hugh Hampton Young in the 1930s-1940s, Lawson Wilkins set up a new pediatric endocrinology clinic where it was recognised that doctors could not always tell a person’s sex just by looking at external genitalia. The Psychohormonal Research Unit was set up in 1951, and persons who wanted a change of sex often came.

Milton Edgerton and John Money were major advocates of a new approach. Money became head of the PRU in 1962. He arranged subsidies from Reed Erickson, and met frequently with Harry Benjamin and Richard Green. They decided to set up a Gender Identity Clinic. The first patient was Phyllis Wilson, who became a dancer in New York. The New York Daily News picked up the gossip. Thus outed, the clinic gave an exclusive to the New York Times.

Within a year, over 700 desperate transsexuals wrote and implored the doctors at the Johns Hopkins Clinic to help them; However, very few were recommended for surgery. Initially the clinic did vaginoplasty using skin taken from the patient’s thigh. However, they examined trans women who had returned from Dr Byrou’s clinic in Casablanca. Dr Edgerton adopted and adapted Dr Burou’s Penile Inversion method. However, much of the actual surgery was done by gynaecologist Howard Jones. In 1967 an Orchiectomy and construction of a rudimentary vulva was done on 22-month-old Bruce Reimer (later to be David) under the aegis of John Money.

In 1975 Catholic psychiatrist Dr Paul McHugh became head of the Psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins, with the intention from the start to put an end to sex change surgeries. He pushed for a negative review of the operations and got one in 1979 from psychiatrist Jon Meyers. All operations ceased. In fourteen years only thirty people had been operated on.

The David Reimer case became a scandal in the 1990s when the adult Reimer was found to have rejected his female assignment. He died by suicide in 2004, and Money stubbornly refused to admit that he had been in error.

Joto

A slang term in Mexican Spanish, previously derogatory, but now partially reclaimed. The term probably derived in the early 20th century in Mexico City's Lecumberri prison. Gay men were reportedly kept in "Cell Block J" (Jota), leading to the slang "joto" for inmates in that section.

Juice

External hormones.

Junk

A self-deprecating non-committal term for genitals.

Justice Weekly

A Toronto Tabloid that was published weekly 1946-1973 with accounts of international criminal trials, but also accounts of and letters from readers re homosexuality, cross-dressing and Fetishism.

Juxtasex

Not Intersex.

Kabuki カブク (= leaning, slanted, shocking)

Japanese theatre originally featured female actors playing both male and female parts. This was pioneered in the early 17^th century by Izumo no Okuni 出雲の阿国. In 1629 the Shogunate forbade women from performing using the excuse of morality. A new kabuki using young men in both male and female roles arose quickly but was in turn banned because of suggestions of prostitution. A third kabuki performed by older men only was left, and has continued to the present time. See Onnagata.

Karyotype

1. A process by which photographs are taken of one’s chromosomes in order to determine the total number and any abnormalities.
2. The complete set of chromosomes. These are usually either 46 XY or 46 XX.

Katoey, Kathoey กะเทย

A word of Khmer origin used in Thailand to denote trans, intersex, third sex, gay – any deviation from dominant sexual mores. Usually translated as Ladyboy. See also Phuying, Phuying praphet song. Phet thi sam, Phu ying praphet song, Sao praphet song – terms used by Thai Katoey to refer to themselves.

Kay Mayflower Society

A short-lived Boston transvestite club that split from the Cherrystone Club in 1975. It was led by Kay Campbell and lasted until 1985.

Khanith خنيث‎

See Xanith, Mukhannathun.

Khawaja Sara خواجه سرا‎

The term used in Pakistan for what in India are called Hijra. Typically they are invited to dance in the home during wedding rituals or the birth of a child, but afterwards they are cast out on the street to beg.

Khawals

Male-bodied persons who impersonated the women who danced the Ghawazi, the traditional Egyptian dance which gave both moves and costume to modern belly dancing.

Khunsa

The term for Intersex in Islam. There two subcategories: wadhih (discernible) and musykil (intractable). - the latter being one who cannot easily be categorised as male or female. Khunsa are distinguished from Mukhannathun, which is not regarded as biological.

Khusra

Among Urdu and Punjabi speakers, and thus in most of Pakistan, the term for Hijra.

Kiki

1. a) ‘kiki queen’ was a US expression in the 1940s and later for female impersonators and femme men who loved another such rather than going with a butch man.
2. b) A US lesbian term in the 1940s/1950s for women who were indecisive between Butch and Femme, or were otherwise.

Queers of the gay world.

Kilt

A skirt-like item worn by Scottish men. However, it is distinguished from skirts by usually being worn with a sporran (a front pocket) and a dirk (dagger).

Kink

1. Sexual practices done by others, not by me.
2. A synonym for practices done by those who self-identify as Fetishists.

Kinnar

The preferred term for Hijra in north India, particularly in Maharashtra.

Kinsey Scale

A scale devised by Alfred Kinsey to categorise Sexual Orientation. 

Replacing hetero/homosexual with gyne/androphilic for trans women:

0 Exclusively gynephilic

1 Predominantly gynephilic, only incidentally androphilic

2 Predominantly gynephilic, but more than incidentally androphilic

3 Equally gynephilic and androphilic

4 Predominantly androphilic, but more than incidentally gynephilic

5 Predominantly androphilic, only incidentally gynephilic

6 Exclusively androphilic

1-5 are of course gradations of bisexuality and thus permit Choice.

Kkonminam (꽃미남)

A recent South Korean term denoting soft masculinity and initially used for pretty boy characters in girls’ comics. It is compared to the Japanese concept of Bishōnen, which like all Japanese pop culture was officially banned until 1998, but which seeped into South Korean culture anyway. Many Korean boy bands are Kkonminam.

Klinefelter Syndrome (KS)

A male genotype condition with 47 XXY Karyotype. This usually results in infertility. Men often do not realise that they have KS until they seek treatment for infertility. It can be treated with Testosterone. A small number of KS persons become trans women, but most KS boys grow up to be KS men.

Köçek

Derived from the Persian word کوچک kuchak, meaning "little", "small", or "young". Köçeks are young male dancers in female attire. A Köçek was trained from the age of 7 or 8 for six years and then performed until his beard started. The culture flourished 17^th-19th centuries and was encouraged by the Ottoman Sultan.

Koekchuch

The two-spirit tradition among the Itelmens of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, that has now died out. 

Kokwi’ma

Male-assigned two-spirit among the Acoma.

Koovagam

A 15-day trans festival in the month of Chitrai (April-May) held annually in the Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu. It remembers that Vishnu in the form of a woman had married Koothandavar, and also mourns Koothandavar’s death with dances. A beauty pageant and seminars on trans health and rights are also held.

Kothi

An Indian term for males who are effeminate to varying degrees. Some but not all Hijra are also Kothi; some but not all Kothi as also Hijra.

Kteuy

A perhaps outdated Khmer term for trans women in Cambodia. See Sak Veng.

Kuxa’t

Male-assigned two-spirit among the Arikara.

Kwolu-aatmwol

A term for 5-alpha Reductase Deficiency in Papua New Guinea.