Go on im listening meme12/23/2023 Before there was formal trans medicine in the U.S. JGP: I mean, the only way you can have a concept of DIY is for there to be something that is the opposite of it, for there to be formal medical transition, gatekept transition at a doctor’s office. That’s the predominant mode through which trans people transition because there’s never been any widespread accessibility to clinics or to doctors.įM: Access to hormones specifically is maybe one thing, but then there are also all of these other ways that trans people learn from and teach each other how to present and how to act. But part of what my book is interested in is the fact not only that DIY long predates this present attempt to criminalize transition, but actually the real kind of question I’m working with - and the thing I kind of want to confront not just scholars but the public with to think about - is actually the fact that most people have always transitioned DIY. Probably the most widely known version of that is the self-administration of hormones without a prescription. JGP: I’m working on a book about the history of do-it-yourself transition - or DIY, as it’s called in the trans community - which is a very broad umbrella term for all of the ways that people transition gender when they don’t have access to a formal doctor, or don’t have the sanction of the law, and don’t have access to gender-affirming care. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.įM: Introduce this book that you’re writing - what’s it about? She is working on her next book, “Gender Underground: A Trans History of DIY.” She is the author of “Histories of the Transgender Child” and a general co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Jules Gill-Peterson is a 2023–24 Radcliffe fellow and an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.
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