The history of the clinic that your book does is a different history than that of someone like Sylvia Rivera. Most trans people actually historically are not ever interacting with clinicians. They're actually the demographic numerical majority of trans people in the 20th century, but they haven't even been understood as the primary actors because they didn't interface with the right experts.
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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