Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is
little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that
there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability
in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of
trans visibility in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a vehement
backlash right at the time that trans, in the form of what was then
termed transvestism and transsexuality, seemed to be so ascendant?
Was there transness before transsexuality was named in the 1950s
and transgender emerged in the 1990s? Barry Reay explores this
history: from a time before trans in the nineteenth century to the
transsexual moment of the 1960s and 1970s, the transgender turn of
the 1990s, and the so-called tipping point of current culture. It
is a rich and varied history, where same-sex desires and
identities, cross-dressing, and transsexual and transgender
identities jostled for recognition. It is a history that is not at
all flattering to US psychiatric and surgical practices. Arguing
for the complexity of a trans past and present, Trans America will
be a groundbreaking work for the trans community, as well as anyone
interested in the history of medicine, sexuality, psychology and
psychiatry.
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