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Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and not just for transgender people

By G. Samantha Rosenthal, Associate Professor of History, Roanoke College

The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.

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