1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”
Some Things Worry You About World The story of the Miami housewife who, it turned out, had once been a man, was a shocker. But not just because it involved sex surgery. After all, if science can correct such mistakes of nature as the absence of hair or decay of teeth, or dimming eyesight or fading hearing, it is only reasonable to expect such physiological fillips as this. The minister who performed the marriage ceremony for this former boy who is not a girl “was shocked,” to learn the story. “I’m going to call my doctor and get some tranquilizers,” said the Rev. A. H. Stainback. “I wonder what the deacons will say.” It is not the trans-sexuals and transvestites that cause us worry about the world. It is ministers who, in time of crisis, reach for tranquilizers rather than prayer and worry about what, not the Lord, but the
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“1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to science, evidence, and expertise, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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No dominant policy frame was detected in “1959: Attitudes Toward “Trans-sexuals and Transvestites”.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of science, evidence, and expertise may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.
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Themes
- 1Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life67%
- 3Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community67%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community25%
Academic framing
- 1100%
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Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
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