Three Questions for Every Paper of Record That Publishes a Story on Trans Healthcare
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The defining feature of modern transgender medicine is transphobia. Unlike many fields of medical practice, transgender medicine was deliberately intended by its architects to prevent and limit as many trans people as possible from transitioning. This is conventionally termed the “gatekeeping” model of transgender medicine, one engineered primarily in Europe and North America in the mid twentieth century. The story of how this self-limiting principle came to be and why is immensely complex, but it is the overwhelming consensus of the historians of record who have researched the field’s formation and development.
Three Questions for Every Paper of Record That Publishes a Story on Trans Healthcare
Three Questions for Every Paper of Record…
Three Questions for Every Paper of Record That Publishes a Story on Trans Healthcare
The defining feature of modern transgender medicine is transphobia. Unlike many fields of medical practice, transgender medicine was deliberately intended by its architects to prevent and limit as many trans people as possible from transitioning. This is conventionally termed the “gatekeeping” model of transgender medicine, one engineered primarily in Europe and North America in the mid twentieth century. The story of how this self-limiting principle came to be and why is immensely complex, but it is the overwhelming consensus of the historians of record who have researched the field’s formation and development.