The idea that sex starts out in everyone with the potential to become, to some degree, more male than female or more female than male. Charles Darwin said humans could probably do the same thing under the right circumstances. It's largely believed by the turn of the 20th century that no one is really male or female Sex is not binary in the way we understand it today.
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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