In recent years, numerous commentators have claimed that being transgender is a “fad” or a “trend.” Others say that it is a recent phenomenon, despite centuries of evidence to the contrary. And still others conflate documented cases of women cross-dressing in order to access opportunities the patriarchy denied them with trans men just trying to be themselves.
Dr. Alan L. Hart was a pioneer in the field of tuberculosis research and treatment, an author, and a transgender man. He was born in 1890, and medically transitioned in the late 1910’s, before the advent of any cohesive transgender rights movement or culture like anything we see today. Transgender people have always existed, whether they’ve received their dues in the annals of history or not.
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