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The Transgender Tapestry, originally the Tapestry and the TV-TS Tapestry, was a transgender periodical. It was founded in 1978. Among the issues it covered were the transsexualism typology developed by sexologist Ray Blanchard and the definition of transgender for outside audiences.

Publication history
In 1978, a transgender support group, the Tiffany Club, began publishing the Tapestry, a transgender periodical. The name "tapestry" was chosen because it denoted the bringing together multiple identities. It was eventually renamed the TV-TS Tapestry. In 1995, the name of the newsletter was again changed from the TV-TS Tapestry to the Transgender Tapestry.

Contents
In 1998, Transgender Tapestry included a piece by Anne Lawrence, a transgender rights activist, that discussed the transsexualism typology developed by sexologist Ray Blanchard. In 2004, she said her writing was partly responsible for the wider discussion of Blanchard's typology within the transgender community; transgender academic Julia Serano similarly wrote that Lawrence's writing was partially responsible.

In 2001, in recognition of its 101st issue, the paper collected 26 articles that defined transgender for a cisgender audience.