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The rise and fall of gender identity clinics in the 1960s and 1970s

Editor’s note: This article is based on the second-place poster in the American College of Surgeons History of Surgery poster contest at the virtual Clinical Congress 2020. The authors note that as the field of medicine and society have evolved to better understand the experiences of transgender individuals, terminology has changed significantly. The authors have […]

Melanie Fritz, Nat Mulkey

April 1, 2021