ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the facilities and attributes of cyberspace, and its particular features of disembodiment, community development and spatial re-organisation, in re-organising minority group activism. In particular, it considers how these properties have been used by transsexual and cross-dressing people to create and promote a new self-identification category: transgendered. This new, more diverse and flexible self-identification category has then been utilised to both multiply and concentrate the activism and campaigning base concerned with issues which address all potential members of the new community. But perhaps most specifically in the context of academic ‘gender politics’, it is moving the discussions on and away from those legal issues which are, in fact, just of concern to a minority of transsexual people.
