Preface
Introduction: Toward a Trans-of-Color Critique of Medicine
1. The Racial Plasticity of Gender and the Child
2. Before Transsexuality: The Transgender Child from the 1900s to
the 1930s
3. Sex in Crisis: Intersex Children in the 1950s and the Invention
of Gender
4. From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: Transgender Childhood in the
1960s
5. Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970s
Conclusion: How to Bring Your Kids Up Trans
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
JulesGill-Peterson is assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Histories of the Transgender Child is a tour de force contribution
to transgender studies, tracing little-noticed pathways from the
past toward convergences that increasingly take center stage in the
next field. An elegant combination of sophisticated theorization
with equally sophisticated attention to archival and historical
materials, this is one of the best books in trans studies in recent
years."—Susan Stryker, University of
Arizona"Jules Gill-Peterson excavates the history of medicine,
introducing readers to a century’s worth of gender nonconforming
youth. This remarkable book is not merely a backward glance; it
offers an urgent call to reimagine trans as a form of
self-knowledge children can hold and for an ethics of care that
focuses on affirmation."—Tey Meadow, author of Trans
Kids"Meticulously researched and compellingly argued, this book is
a welcome addition to a number of fields, including trans of color
critique, childhood studies, and queer and trans history."—C. Riley
Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides
"This work fills a gap in queer history; older trans, intersex, and
nonbinary people who work through the dense, theoretical prose may
find their experiences reflected in Gill-Peterson’s history, and
younger ones may discover that their “uncovering of a century of
untold stories” provides a tether to an underexplored
legacy."—Publishers Weekly
"You have to start somewhere. Indeed, few things begin in a
vacuum: you need an idea, then experiments and practice to create a
masterpiece. Nothing magically just appears. And in the new
book “Histories of the Transgender Child” by Jules
Gill-Peterson,you’ll see that that’s true, too, about knowledge and
change." —South Florida Gay News
"For children’s literature scholars who work on gender and
sexuality, this book is essential reading for its insights that
transgender children are not new and that binary sex and gender are
extremely recent and fragile ideas reliant on a dehumanizing,
racially coded conceptualization of the child as plasticity." —The
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