Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-PetersonPublication Date: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Histories of the Transgender Child uncovers a twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors. Beginning with the early 1900s when children with "ambiguous" sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children's sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and '70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children's bodies, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.