🏳️⚧️“A Body to Match the Mind” – From our Digital Collection🏳️⚧️

From the Times, 1966… Johns Hopkins speaks to the importance of transition ⚧️

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It was the desire for sex change surgery. That same year, #HarryBenjamin published “Transvestism and Transsexualism” in the “International Journal of Sexology”. He had become a major advocate for trans people & their desire for sex change. In it he wrote:

DYK David Oliver Cauldwell launched the word “#transsexual” for people who wanted to change their sex in “Psychopathia Transexualis” in a 1949 “Sexology”? In the ‘50s, Christian Hamburger & #HarryBenjamin began to use the word to distinguish their clients from #transvestites.