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
'Boy Wearing a Wig,' Wilhelm von Gloeden (1900).Wikimedia CommonsIn 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...