The author says there is no one kind of that kid, you're not necessarily going to find them replicated in the past. Jules writes about how a regime of gripping individuals and populations through sex and gender as an element of statecraft or governmentality shifts over time. "I don't think we have to have that kind of proof in order to be taken seriously," she adds.
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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