“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston

By Caitlin Hopkins Early America, Trans

One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.

Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History

By Emily Skidmore Trans

Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?

Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism

By Galen Comerford Trans

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

By GVGK Tang Ancient World, Trans

Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga Empire and Colonialism, Trans

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Trans

The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.