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Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
by
Zein Murib
via
Slate
on
April 7, 2025
Discrimination Against Trans Olympians Has Roots in Nazi Germany
1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.
by
Michael Waters
,
Alex Abad-Santos
via
Vox
on
August 1, 2024
How a Disabled Black Trans Woman Left Her Mark on 19th-Century Memphis
For a brief moment in history, Frances Thompson was Memphis’ biggest scandal. Her life paints a different picture of our civil rights legacy.
by
Justin A. Davis
via
The Emancipator
on
June 13, 2024
Human Velocity
“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.
by
Michael Waters
,
Frankie de la Cretaz
via
The Baffler
on
June 7, 2024
A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.
by
Michael Waters
via
The New Yorker
on
June 1, 2024
Many Revolutions
The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.
by
Jamie Lauren Keiles
,
Avery Dame-Griff
via
The Baffler
on
July 10, 2023
Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States
Digital communications allowed transgender individuals and organizations the digital tools to organize and connect at a previously impossible scale and speed.
by
Avery Dame-Griff
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
June 29, 2023
Beyond the Binary
The long history of trans.
by
Stephanie Burt
via
The Nation
on
June 25, 2023
partner
Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
via
Retro Report
on
May 30, 2023
Doctors Who?
The history of DIY transition offers one path toward what might come after, or in the place of, state-sanctioned care.
by
Jules Gill-Peterson
via
The Baffler
on
October 4, 2022
partner
Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline
New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.
by
Mena Davidson
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 12, 2022
In the 1940s, a Trans Pioneer Fought California for Legal Recognition. This Is How She Won.
Barbara Ann Richards designed—and then demanded—the life she deserved.
by
Michael Waters
via
Slate
on
March 20, 2022
partner
The New Wave of Anti-Trans Legislation is Based on Very Old Arguments and Ideas
Trans Americans have taken to the courts for decades to fight against the notion that they are a threat.
by
Shay Ryan Olmstead
via
Made By History
on
June 14, 2021
An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet
Trans people have existed since the dawn of time. The internet has not.
by
Henry Giardina
via
Gizmodo
on
July 9, 2019
The Forgotten Trans History of the Wild West
Despite a seeming absence from the historical record, people who did not conform to traditional gender norms were a part of daily life in the Old West.
by
Sabrina Imbler
via
Atlas Obscura
on
June 21, 2019
How Birth Certificates Are Being Weaponized Against Trans People
A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.
by
Garrett Epps
via
The Atlantic
on
June 8, 2018
What is Trans History?
From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.
by
Kritika Agarwal
via
Perspectives on History
on
May 2, 2018
Transgender Men Who Lived a Century Ago Prove Gender Has Always Been Fluid
In her new book, ‘True Sex,’ historian Emily Skidmore looks at their lives and how society has treated them.
by
Nina Renata Aron
via
Timeline
on
July 31, 2017
Trump's Argument Against Transgender Soldiers Was Used Against Gays, Women, and Blacks
A brief review of history.
by
Philip Bump
via
Washington Post
on
July 26, 2017
A History of Transgender Health Care
As the stigma of being transgender begins to ease, medicine is starting to catch up
by
Farah Naz Khan
via
Scientific American
on
November 16, 2016
The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way for Stonewall
In 1966, the queens had finally had enough with years of discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
via
Collectors Weekly
on
August 15, 2016
LGB and/or T History
“Transgender” has gone from an umbrella term for different behaviors, to an umbrella term for different identities.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
Digital Transgender Archive
How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans
A warning for us all about history repeating itself.
by
Tracy Slater
via
Literary Hub
on
May 12, 2025
No History Without the T
When the National Park Service removed trans people from the webpages of the Stonewall National Monument, it echoed one of the darkest chapters of the queer past.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
Slate
on
February 16, 2025
Frances Thompson Survived a Race Massacre and Bravely Testified to Congress. Then She Was Slandered.
A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity.
by
Chelsea Bailey
via
CNN
on
February 16, 2025
“The Relationship Between Public Morals and Public Toilets”
Christine Jorgensen and the birth of trans bathroom panic.
by
Nikita Shepard
via
Nursing Clio
on
November 27, 2024
Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”
Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
by
Drew de Pinto
via
The New Yorker
on
June 5, 2024
Who's Afraid of Social Contagion?
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
Boston Review
on
July 31, 2023
A Gender-Affirming Surgery Gripped America in 1952: ‘I Am Your Daughter’
Long before “transgender” entered the lexicon, Christine Jorgensen became the year’s biggest story.
by
Francine Uenuma
via
Retropolis
on
June 12, 2023
The New York Times is Repeating One of Its Most Notorious Mistakes
The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.
by
Jack Mirkinson
via
The Nation
on
February 20, 2023
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