Collective Demo

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1977: Trans-sexed

She withdrew from medical practice in order to concentrate on playing tennis as “my vehicle” for proving that a trans-sexed male “is a woman in every conceivable way” and not “psychotic or freaky.”

Healthcare and medicine

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1968: Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966

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…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine

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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

Crosspost from my Ehipassiko blog, posted here for research value Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even…

Community and organizingEducation and youth

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HBIDGA (WPATH) SOC I

The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric persons…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine

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Interview with Dr. Milton Diamond

Dr. Diamond is an early pioneer in trans research. Outside of the trans community, he is best known for exposing the “John/Joan” case in which Dr. Money (who allegedly physically attacked Dr. Diamond years…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation