Transition isn't Recent
Lean about the history of the trans community, and where our ideas around gender come from.
A common talking point pushed by those who seek to limit trans folks' rights is the idea that transitioning is a new concept. Often, they combine this rhetoric with claims of a "social contagion", and conspiracy theories about Big Pharma.
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Trans people have existed in various forms, far longer than most folks realise.
Early History
Weimar
Stonewall
Affirming Care
Research Notes
- https://daily.jstor.org/gender-identity-in-weimar-germany/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_transgender_history
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestite_pass
- https://harvardpublichealth.org/equity/to-protect-gender-affirming-care-we-must-learn-from-trans-history/
- https://karger.com/hrp/article/95/6/649/828500/The-Evolution-of-Adolescent-Gender-Affirming-Care
- https://migrantsrights.org.uk/2023/07/14/the-gender-binary-is-white-supremacy/
- https://mjhnyc.org/events/transgender-experiences-in-weimar-and-nazi-germany/
- https://nebula.tv/videos/jessiegender-the-antitrans-propaganda-film-made-by-a-cult or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0RYYS7jZuk
- https://theconversation.com/gender-affirming-care-has-a-long-history-in-the-us-and-not-just-for-transgender-people-201752
- https://wp.nyu.edu/schoolofprofessionalstudies-ga_review/british-colonial-rule-gender-binaries/
- https://www.google.ie/books/edition/Determinants_of_Indigenous_Peoples_Healt/jblaDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
- https://www.jcfs.org/response/blog/history-pride-part2
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/23269669
- https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/3/67
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2022/06/black-trans-perspectives-and-the-anniversary-of-the-stonewall-riots
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_controversy
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/