'Histories Of The Transgender Child' with Jules Gils Peterson

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Patreon-only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53083786 I talk to historian Jules Gill-Peterson about her groundbreaking and moving book "Histories of the Transgender Child." Peterson is associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at The University of Pittsburg. She's the General Co-Editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press). And her writing can be found in places like The New York Times, The Guardian, and more. Find out more about Jules at https://www.jgillpeterson.com/, follow her on twitter at twitter.com/gp_jls and check out her substack Sad Brown Girl https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/ .

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. Happy Pride Month. Happy Reflame Pride. Happy
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0:28.4	and extended interviews. On today's episode I play an interview I did with the excellent
0:33.7	Jules Gil Peterson, an historian, and associate professor of English and gender sexuality and
0:41.7	women studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She's the author of the book History of the Transgender
0:46.6	Child and the general co-editor of Transgender Studies which comes out of Duke University Press.
0:53.8	Her rating can be found in places like the New York Times, the Guardian, and more. You can check
0:59.9	out her sub-stack sadbrowngirl at sadbrowngirl.substack.com. Find out more about Jules at jgillpterson.com.
1:09.7	Follow her on Twitter at gpunderscorejls. This interview was recorded in April but it's just as
1:16.8	relevant now as it was then. Really excited to be speaking to Jules today about her amazing book
1:26.2	which I have right here and everyone should get it. Histories of the Transgender Child and wanted to
1:32.2	know like why you wrote this book in the first place and how you came upon the really interesting
1:39.3	archival material. That's a great question and thanks for thanks for having me on to talk
1:45.2	about this. I started this research gosh. It was during my PhDs about seven or eight years
1:52.2	ago now and time moved so quickly in trans time I suppose. That far back we were starting to see
2:00.1	some of the first kind of media and trust in trans youth but it was pretty small. It was like
2:06.2	limited to a few journalistic exposés or maybe a documentary or two but at the time I was
2:12.1	already sort of knee deep in research on the history of trans medicine in general so how
2:16.8	have trans people been medicalized over the past hundred years and you know I had been sort of
2:22.2	watching the way that trans issues especially around that sort of 2014 Le Verne Cox time magazine
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