The anti-trans politics currently fueling right-wing reaction is fundamentally centered upon the figure of the trans child. The entire conflict, however, is premised on the conventional wisdom that trans children are something new. In fact, they are not. My interview today is with Jules Gil Peterson, a historian at Johns Hopkins University and the author of histories of the transgender child.
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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