Julian Gill-Peterson - Histories of the Transgender Child

2018, English, Julian Gill-Peterson, USA,

Full title: "Histories of the Transgender Child" by Julian Gill-Peterson.

"Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.

Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century - a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents." 

According to Wikipedia, Jules Gill-Peterson is an American historian specializing in transgender history. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her best-known work is the 2018 book Histories of the Transgender Child, which documented the pervasiveness of children identifying as transgender in the United States well before the twenty-first century.

This book received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. She is a general co-editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and previously served as a research fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies and at the Kinsey Institute.

In 2020, she received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh, where she previously served as a faculty member. She received her B.A. degree from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2015.

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