"Call it What You Want?" by Eileen Broome

To write history means to write the facts about what happened in a non-bias sense.

Now, history can hardly ever get all the facts, but what about when sections are erased? Transgender people have their own section of queer history they can Transgender/Transsexual history due to the lack of inclusivity in queer history.  Hall explains that it is so hard to define queer history because by nature, “‘a’ queer history is nevertheless a problematic one. One of the most useful insights of late twentieth century critical theory ... is that ‘history’ is always an artificial construct”.

But queer history generally lives in the land of sometimes claiming things as queer simply because it was unusual at the time and it links to liberation somehow. So why would it not be inclusive of transgender history? Namaste defies queer theory as exclusive and defines it is “absolute neglect of everyday life for transgender people” and claims it, “exhibits a remarkable insensitivity to the substantive issues of transgendered people's everyday lives”.A huge chunk of transgender history, which is queer history, has not been recorded. Thus writing queer history is negating a huge portion of it.

A struggle that was clearly not documented as well as it should have been was and still is HIV + and AIDS.  AIDS is a struggle that hit the transgender community hard. Per the CDC of the roughly 1 million adults in the US who identify as transgender, ”2,351 transgender people were diagnosed with HIV”. Among HIV testing, of more than 3 million people, “the percentage of transgender people who received a new HIV diagnosis was more than 3 times the national average”.  This fear of AIDS was a huge silencer of the not just the ability to record and write history, but was a oppressor and killer to the Transgender community with AIDS. Faderman talks about how "[Ronald] Regan himself wouldn't even utter the word AIDS until his good friend from Hollywood days, Rocky Hudson died of it in 1985" (418).

Hall notes something that could be seen as a possible explanation to why transgender history was not recorded, “It was commonly feared that simply discussing sexual nonconformity would give people ideas about forms of sexual expression and gratification”. Since those notions were rarely expressed they are now rarely understood fully. To not understand where something came from, means to diminish their struggle amongst other queer struggles. When you can’t write a history for a group you leave it in the past and can you really call something history if it isn’t known in the present?