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1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966

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Niagara Falls Gazette Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968 Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July 1966. The program, first of its kind in the United States, was under taken to help transsexuals — persons of one sex who feel, behave and dress as a member of the opposite sex. Both men and women have undergone operations at the clinic. Dr. John E. Hoopes, a plastic surgeon who helped launch the program at Johns Hopkins said soon after the program began: “After exhaustively reviewing the available literature and discussing the problem with people knowledgeable in this area, I arrived at the unavoidable conclusion that these people need and deserve help.” The doctors at Johns Hopkins say they have encountered no opposition to their program from religious, groups. It is not known how

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Community significance

“1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966” 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

As a publication record from 2012 at Cristan’s Research, “1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966” provides dated evidence of how healthcare and medicine was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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No dominant policy frame was detected in “1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of healthcare and medicine may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
33%

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Clinical and medical analysis
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Cristan

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