In the late 19th and early 20th century life sciences, sex underwent two key transformations. Sex became synonymous with a concept of biological plasticity that made it an ultra more fology. And through experiments by largely eugenic scientists, it was racialized as a phenotype. The framing of sex through racial plasticity occurred in a broader scientific milieu in Europe and the United States.
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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