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Trans kids in the US were seeking treatment decades before today's political battles over access to health care

  • Written by Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Trans kids in the US were seeking treatment decades before today's political battles over access to health care'Boy Wearing a Wig,' Wilhelm von Gloeden (1900).Wikimedia Commons

In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and openly during...

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