One of these days we need to find and delve through the daytime TV history of the 1980s in order to unpack how and just when media sensationalism propelled this nonsense. I can recall a time when professionals working with "transvestites" warned AGAINST cross-dressing around children, a "trans person" would be subject to probing questions about their unrealistic expectations from the audience, and show hosts were still figuring out which side they were on.
Yeah that would be great. Seems there was a cultural backlash in the 1980s and a regrouping, like an interregnum between 1970s sage sexologists and 1990s militant activists. Piece I'm missing: what were the Christian conservatives saying? Did they have a sustained ideological critique or did they just add trans to their laundry list of culture war beefs without analyzing much?
Lesbians were also quick to try to get surgery early on, once Christine Jorgensen had it and it was publicized. It's described in Abbruzzese's talk at the Genspect 2023 Denver conference.
Also many of the early operated upon people seem to have been dealing with distress rather necessarily a fetish or being gay. Pffaflin's regret study discusses this.
The book "Stone Butch Blues" is a fictionalized autobiography of its author, who I once knew, and discusses butch lesbians transitioning in the 60s & 70s as a response to job discrimination, police harassment, etc. The world has always been a tough place for masculine women, I think some empathy for their struggles is important
One of these days we need to find and delve through the daytime TV history of the 1980s in order to unpack how and just when media sensationalism propelled this nonsense. I can recall a time when professionals working with "transvestites" warned AGAINST cross-dressing around children, a "trans person" would be subject to probing questions about their unrealistic expectations from the audience, and show hosts were still figuring out which side they were on.
Yeah that would be great. Seems there was a cultural backlash in the 1980s and a regrouping, like an interregnum between 1970s sage sexologists and 1990s militant activists. Piece I'm missing: what were the Christian conservatives saying? Did they have a sustained ideological critique or did they just add trans to their laundry list of culture war beefs without analyzing much?
Who could forget that time the Brady Bunch dad transitioned on national TV? That was 1975 though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socEgaalfbU
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Terrific research and reporting, thank you!
Thanks!
Lesbians were also quick to try to get surgery early on, once Christine Jorgensen had it and it was publicized. It's described in Abbruzzese's talk at the Genspect 2023 Denver conference.
Also many of the early operated upon people seem to have been dealing with distress rather necessarily a fetish or being gay. Pffaflin's regret study discusses this.
Thanks! I'm very interested in patient cohorts who don't fit the Blanchard model.
Yes, there's one documented case of a Swedish ftm back in 1953.
Here's a very good article that I think mentions the EEF as well: https://www.jstor.org/stable/800159
The book "Stone Butch Blues" is a fictionalized autobiography of its author, who I once knew, and discusses butch lesbians transitioning in the 60s & 70s as a response to job discrimination, police harassment, etc. The world has always been a tough place for masculine women, I think some empathy for their struggles is important
Excellent! Greatly appreciate the humor.