50,000 Deaths
Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery By Janice G. Raymond Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Women’s Studies Hampshire College/University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts June, 1980 Note: If you’re looking for the article that proves that Raymond helped strip insurance coverage of trans care from public and private insurers, that article is located here. The subject of transsexualism, whether raised in the public forum or in the academic or medical communities, has been viewed generally as a medical issue that requires hormonal and surgical intervention. Several assumptions accompany this profile of transsexualism. That the transsexual is a person who is trapped in the body of the wrong sex. Thus we have the popular definition of a transsexual as a “female mind in a male body.” This results in the perception of transsexualism as a disease or as disease-like and thus a medical problem. In many cases,
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Community significance
“50,000 Deaths” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning healthcare and medicine. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is healthcare regulation. It links that institutional frame to healthcare and medicine and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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- 1Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community76%
- 3Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication42%
- 4History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication37%
- 5Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life32%
- 6Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life20%
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- 1100%
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@VictorLicata1
50,000 Deaths. The medicalization of transexuality http://t.co/7sPjJabycC via @B1uEYE #Transhumanism
@VictorLicata1
RT @B1uEYE: 50k dead - Why it's so hard to forgive radfems. Yet we *must* have peace. #IkoIko #PeacePipe http://t.co/1KtZD4oenf
Sabine Yeuxbleus (@B1uEYE)
50k dead - Why it's so hard to forgive radfems. Yet we *must* have peace. #IkoIko #PeacePipe http://t.co/1KtZD4oenf
@six_of_caprica
RT @transadvocate: 50,000 Deaths | The start of the #RadFem extermination of #trans people http://t.co/EhUTNdUKsv
Autumn Sandeen (@AutumnSandeen)
Via @transadvocate: 50,000 Deaths http://t.co/ysyUswzZgj #trans #lgbtqia
transadvocate (@transadvocate)
50,000 Deaths | The start of the #RadFem extermination of #trans people http://t.co/EhUTNdUKsv
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