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Histories of the transgender child / Julian Gill-Peterson.

by Gill-Peterson, Julian.

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University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

306.7680835 G483h

Transgender children -- United States -- History.

9781517904678 (pbk.)

x, 262 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.

Introduction: toward a trans-of-color critique of medicine -- The racial plasticity of gender and the child -- Before transsexuality: the transgender child from the 1900s to the 1930s -- Sex in crisis: intersex children in the 1950s and the invention of gender -- From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: transgender childhood in the 1960s -- Transgender boyhood, race, and puberty in the 1970s -- Conclusion: how to bring your kids up trans.

"With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation -- pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. 'Histories of the transgender child' shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender. Beginning with the early 1900s when children with 'ambiguous' sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies."--From publisher.

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