Status Updates From Histories of the Transgende...

Honestly I might just skim the rest one day at school

Progress. I wish there was a book like this without all of the academic jargon

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Love this. Jules is going hard refuting some trans studies classics on how they fall into transphobic narratives of the 'newness' of trans. We don't need medical recognition to exist. Invisibility does not mean inexistence, just a narrow way of seeing transness. As queer historians are apt to say: we have always been here.

Halfway through……..

Oh man, this is a breath of fresh air. I've been enjoying Alice's book on hermaphroditism, but you can tell she's an outsider merely fascinated by the construction of intersex by medical men. Jules' is fucking angry. She's outraged at how reactionaries have captured the narrative of trans children, pushing them to suicide, bullied and murdered at the hands of others. She's fucking integral.

Oh my god I finally finished the second chapter let us rejoice!!!!!!!!!!

fuck my gay life i started crying reading the letters from trans kids trying to get healthcare in the 60s

i love having physical copies of my class readings so i can annotate*

*write "KILL YOURSELF" next to all the quotes from the notable doctors of trans history

"By 1950, sex was in crisis. [...] Both biology and medicine had worked themselves into the position of being perilously close to lacking a rationale for the sex binary altogether."

we could have had it all. i'm going back in time to kill john money with a rock

you’re telling me western medical practices and ethics in the 20th century were uniquely barbaric? i’m hearing this now for the first time