The medical archive that you rely on is itself inevitably very white and the black trans youth who appear in your history often end up in a this carceral network of police jails, psychiatric institutions. What what accounts for this this distinction between how white and black trans youths were treated throughout the 20th century and how and how they continue to be treated today? How should those divides structure the way we think about this history?
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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