Tiara’s Reviews > Transgender History > Status Update

“… it is often the most privileged elements of a population affected by a particular civil injustice or social oppression who have the opportunity to organize first.”

“Medical practitioners and institutions have the social power to determine what is considered sick or healthy, normal or pathological, sane or insane—and thus, often, to transform potentially neutral forms of human difference into unjust and oppressive social hierarchies. This particular operation of medicine’s social power has been especially important in transgender history.”