John Moneys invented the concept of gender in 1955. He worked at Johns Hopkins with Joan and John Hampson, who are also psychologists. The idea was to provide a medical solution for sexual abnormality that doesn't exist anymore,. There's no medical justification now for saying you have to look like this ideal type of a man and a woman.
Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans children—and also trans politics more generally.
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