Histories of the Transgender Child - Full Audiobook - Julian Gills Peterson
Channel: cheese burger
Date: 2022-04-17

Histories of the Transgender Child
By Jules Gills Peterson

Copyright 2018 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
Recorded without prior permission of the author :O
This Recording is in the Creative Commons and is eligible for use by anyone.

PDF version https://transreads.org/histories-of-the-transgender-child/

Sylvia Rivera stonewall speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o

Chapters:
 0:00 Title 
 0:31 Preface

 10:17 Introduction: Towards a Trans of Color Critique of Medicine 

 1:49:28 Chapter 1. The Racial Plasticity of Gender and the Child 

 2:59:49 Chapter 2. Before Transexuality: The Transgender Child from the 1900s to the 1930s

 4:50:53 Chapter 3. Sex in Crisis: Intersex Children in the 1950s and the Invention of Gender

 6:25:46 Chapter 4. From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: Transgender Childhood in the 1960s

 7:54:56 Chapter 5. Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970s       

 9:48:02 Conclusion: How to Bring Your Kids Up Trans
 10:06:44 Acknowledgments 

Narrator's note:
 This is my first experience recording an audiobook so I apologize for the inconsistencies and general unevenness in this recording's quality. It is not a professional recording, and was simply made to provide access to readers who can't buy the book themselves, and because there is no freely available audiobook version available yet. This is an original recording, but if the author or publisher wishes for me to take this down then I will comply.
 The book itself I feel, was written for writers more than for readers. So unfortunately the young or unliterary reader will likely have a lot of trouble comprehending this book. It consists of many long, complicated sentences, and many even more complicated words, which all tired out my poor tongue. I recommend that you keep a dictionary.com tab open if you're unused to college/grad student vernacular. Perhaps someday there will be more books written on this subject which are less scholarly.
 Histories of The Transgender Child handles many dark and traumatic subjects, as to be expected for any book on this subject. It goes through the bloody roots of our modern concepts of sex and gender. And explains how sex and and gender were not formed out of a study of nature, but through decades of data extracted from the unconsenting minds and bodies of transgender and intersex children - and to a much more violent degree, trans and intersex children that are black and of color, who's bodies were considered more "fungible" by doctors and the overall medical system. Doctors who's true intent was not to understand or meet the needs of their own patients, but rather to extort and contort them for the aims of upholding their manufactured, binary, and eugenic concepts that we now know of today as sex and gender.
 Histories of The Transgender Child argues that if we do not come to terms with these origins, rooted in the bodies of transgender children and in the eugenic doctors that exploited them, medical science and the LGBT movement will never truly see itself.

 In reading this you will find that trans history is not only defined by suffering, though. There are many cases within these few pages of transgender people who were accepted in their communities for who they were without the need of medicalization, long before terms like transgender and transsexual were around to describe them, and even longer before the current discourses over the newness of trans children and trans people. For as much hardship trans people endure, we still find cases all over history of ones who found happiness and stability, who found community and each other, and who managed to survive long enough to overcome their material conditions. We must, as Jules-Gill-Peterson puts it: "Let them Erupt out history."
 Above all, this book proves that we have a long, long way to come to true love and compassion for trans and gay folks. That we don't yet have ways to provide support that aren't also predicated on harm. And that in all of trans history, and perhaps even now, the rarest and most special of agents were those that simply wished trans people to be, for trans children - to be.