transgender history 
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5/28/2023
Dangerous Records: Why LGBTQ Americans Today Fear the Weaponization of Bureaucracy
by Emily Hand
Requests made by Texas's Attorney General for information about gender change requests on drivers' licenses and other documents alarmed transgender advocates because the data could support an official list of trans Texans at a moment when the group faces public vilification. History shows that innocent bureaucratic records can be used oppressively.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/27/2023
Gender-Affirming Care Has a Long History, and Has Affected Non-Trans People Too
by G. Samantha Rosenthal
Medical intervention to make people's bodies conform to their assigned place in the gender binary has a long history; it has been controversial principally when the same treatments have been used by transgender people.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2/20/2023
Is the Times Repeating Past Mistakes in its Transgender Reporting and Editorials?
The paper's now-notorious reluctance to cover the growing AIDS crisis and insistence on using clinical terminology like "homosexual" to describe gay men are now seen as failures of journalism. Is the paper's recent coverage of transgender issues following the same path?
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11/20/2022
Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History
by Pax Attridge
Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
10/25/2022
Doctors Who? The Radical History of DIY Transition
by Jules Gill-Peterson
As trans people's access to the medical system is under attack by law and political rhetoric, it may be necessary to revisit the history of trans women taking their gender transitions into their own hands.
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SOURCE: History Today
5/13/2020
Rediscovering Trans History (Review)
A review of innovative histories of transgendered persons by Jen Manion and Barry Reay.
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SOURCE: The Paris Review
1/15/19
A Lost Piece of Trans History
The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.
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