Date of Submission
Spring 2019
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Human Rights
Project Advisor 1
Thomas Keenan
Project Advisor 2
Tabetha Ewing
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This project details the medicalization of gender variance in the United States that began in 1950, both in medical discourse and popular culture, and analyzes how this phenomenon has impacted the contemporary landscape of trans healthcare, paying particular attention to issues of access and autonomy.
Open Access Agreement
Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Gifford, Erin, "Constructing the Transsexual: Medicalization, Gatekeeping, and the Privatization of Trans Healthcare in the U.S., 1950-2019" (2019). Senior Projects Spring 2019. 146.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2019/146
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