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The Science Of Being Transgender

Science Vs

CHAPTER

The Trans Community and the Politics of Gender Identity

For years trans people were forced into hospitals for months on end or subjected to electric shock therapy. But things started to shift in the 1990s and into the 2000s There was this burst of activism from the trans community For who and what they are and they're not. And then something happened that ripped the dogma to shreds Reports started coming out about some of these kids who were given vaginas by their doctors and it turned out The Barbie dolls weren't working. It was becoming clear that gender didn't just come from the environment there was something inside these kids telling them the gender that they were.

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