transgender history

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/20/2023
  

  Is the Times Repeating Past Mistakes in its Transgender Reporting and Editorials?

  The paper's now-notorious reluctance to cover the growing AIDS crisis and insistence on using clinical terminology like "homosexual" to describe gay men are now seen as failures of journalism. Is the paper's recent coverage of transgender issues following the same path? 

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• 11/20/2022
  

  Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History

  by Pax Attridge

  Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/25/2022
  

  Doctors Who? The Radical History of DIY Transition

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  As trans people's access to the medical system is under attack by law and political rhetoric, it may be necessary to revisit the history of trans women taking their gender transitions into their own hands. 

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• SOURCE: History Today
  5/13/2020
  

  Rediscovering Trans History (Review)

  A review of innovative histories of transgendered persons by Jen Manion and Barry Reay. 

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• SOURCE: The Paris Review
  1/15/19
  

  A Lost Piece of Trans History

  The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.