Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
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Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism
Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
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