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Barry Reay. Trans America
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Trans America. A Counter-History
Introduction
Notes
1 Before Trans. Introduction
Sexology: Krafft-Ebing
Sexology: Hirschfeld
Sexology: Ellis
A Transsexual Incubator
Sexology in America
Trans Moments
Hidden in Plain Sight
Language of the Streets
Sex Reassignment Before Sex Reassignment
Conclusion
Notes
2 The Transsexual Moment. Introduction
Transsexuality
Early Days
At a Popular Level
Treatment
Lou Sullivan
Transvestism
Female Impersonation
Conclusion
Notes
3 Blurring the Boundaries. Introduction
Self-narratives
Categories
From Gay to Trans
Flaming Creatures
Blurring Boundaries
Conclusion
Notes
4 Backlash. Introduction
Early Critiques
Attitude to Patients
Surgery
Therapy
Behaviour Therapy
Definition/Diagnosis
Assessment
Conclusion
Notes
5 The Transgender Turn. Introduction
The Turn
Diversity
Drag Kings
Drag Queens
Decolonizing Transgender
Surgery Again
Complexities
Children
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Index. A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
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‘Trans America places the recent conversation about trans issues in its historical context, in impressive depth. Sweeping across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Barry Reay provides an accessible yet comprehensive guide to the important people, places, and trends, in the US and beyond – ideal for anyone who wants to understand what came before the “Transgender Tipping Point”.’
Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir
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Obviously, the medical model has framed discussion and shaped the lives first of transsexuals and then of transgender people; it has determined the rules, the parameters, the gates to treatment, and even self-perception. Austin Johnson’s labels ‘hegemonic’ and ‘normative’ are entirely appropriate.56 The sociologist Myra Hird was horrified by the attitudes of psychiatrists, physicians, and psychologists when she attended a gender identity conference in 2000, including ‘highly stereotyped notions of gender’ and the continued framing of transsex (and homosex) as pathology.57 Many commentators have pointed to the persistent gender essentialism and heteronormativity of the paradigm still present in the regime of DSM-5.58
Yet, despite this dominating role, there has still been room for trans agency, evidence of what Dean Spade has termed ‘a self-conscious strategy of deployment of the transsexual narrative by people who do not believe in the gender fictions produced by such a narrative, and who seek to occupy ambiguous gender positions in resistance to norms of gender rigidity’.59 Judith Butler once referred to San Francisco’s ‘dramaturges of transsexuality’, who coached trans men in the gender essentialism which they did not personally hold – yet needed when they approached the psychiatrists and doctors who were the gatekeepers to the sought treatment.60 ‘I braced myself for a conversation where not adhering to stereotypes and clichés could undo this whole plan’, the British trans woman Mia Violet recalled of her encounter with her therapist in the 2000s. ‘I recited my history of gender dysphoria on cue.’61 She carefully avoided complicating the expected narrative.
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