Starting in the 1910s, children with so-called ambiguous sex became the subject of scientific and medical attention. The clinicians practicing and experimenting on these children with what was called hermaphrodiism were not yet using hormones. Urological and plastic surgeons took the lead in imposing sex changes upon these children.
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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