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A history of trans medicine that uses Scandinavian sources to tell a global story.
Standardizing Sex traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century, exploring the construction and negotiation of medical expertise among medical professionals, patients, and activists in the media and government bureaucracy. The…
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"Standardizing Sex" is the history of transgender medicine from the 1920s through 2000 in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Slagstad argues that trans medicine in Scandinavia can only be interpreted through the lens of the history of the welfare state. Teams of specialized physicians decided whether or not a person qualified for hormones, surgery, or mental health care until the early 1990s, when bureaucratic changes necessitated the shift to a model that made psychiatrists into gatekeepers and others into functionaries. Along the way, the reader learns more about the medical journey of Christine Jorgensen in the early 1950s and meets trans…
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