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3/5

This is a really interesting, academic look at the history of trans medicine beginning in the 1950s. It continues to present day to show the ways in which a historical lack of information and data continues to affect the medical care of trans people today.

I read more than half, so I'm not callings this one a DNF, but it ended up being more academic than I was really hoping for.

1. Rabbits by Terry Miles, Trans Medicine by stef m. shuster, and Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

2. This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

3. The Guncle by Steven Rowley

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

1. Trans Medicine by Stef M. Shuster, Black Sci-fi Short Stories by Tia Ross, and Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

2. One Last Stop by Casey McQuistin

3. An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

A look at how doctors, historically and today, understand their trans patients, their role in providing care, their obligations to their professional standards, oaths, and statutory laws, and how they coalesce all this into a specific decision regarding care of a trans patient/client. Shuster is an academic but the writing was accessible for a layperson such as myself, infused with just enough academic-style to make me feel smart.

#queer #lgbtq

“..many of these providers became sensitive to the needs of their trans patients and gained a growing awareness of how deeply flawed the structure of trans medicine is for not only their trans patients but also medical providers.”

Really enjoying this well researched, sensitively written overview of the current state of gender affirming medicine in the U.S.