As early as the 1930s, trans people started showing up at Johns Hopkins claiming to be intersex. The same kinds of medical techniques and procedures that are coercively and often non-consentually performed on intersex people in order to force them into a sexed appearance is denied to transgender people. "I just really wish we could have a much more complicated conversation," says author Hugh Jackman.
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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