Might be obvious, but just to underscore it - if a conservative ever starts spouting nonsense about how āthere wasnāt no transgenders when we was kidsā - yes there were, they just didnāt know, and things like this are why
Also, just to put this research in some historical perspective - when this institute first opened its doors, we hadnāt figured out insulin yet and the best treatment doctors had for diabetics was restrictive diets that ended up starving patients to death as often as not. Like, if those research institutes has gotten firebombed repeatedly over the years, a lot more of society would probably find the notion of people who canāt eat sugar strange.
Might be obvious, but just to underscore it - if a conservative ever starts spouting nonsense about how āthere wasnāt no transgenders when we was kidsā - yes there were, they just didnāt know, and things like this are why
Many early 20th-century British and North American educators and physicians, albeit with a āscientificā rationale, insisted children should be made to write using their right hands. The methods used to obtain this result were often tortuous, including tying a resistant childās left hand to immobilise it. Typical of the reasoning to justify such practices is a 1924 letter to the British Medical Journal endorsing āretrainingā of left-handers to write with their right hands, because otherwise the left-handed child would risk ā[old word we donāt use anymore] in mental development; in some casesā¦actual [old word]ā. As late as 1946 the former chief psychiatrist of the New York City Board of Education, Abram Blau, warned that, unless retrained, left-handed children risked severe developmental and learning disabilities and insisted that āchildren should be encouraged in their early years to adopt dextralityā¦in order to become better equipped to live in our right-sided worldā.
Not just the LGBT+ community, the trans community in specific.
https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/
Might be obvious, but just to underscore it - if a conservative ever starts spouting nonsense about how āthere wasnāt no transgenders when we was kidsā - yes there were, they just didnāt know, and things like this are why
Also, just to put this research in some historical perspective - when this institute first opened its doors, we hadnāt figured out insulin yet and the best treatment doctors had for diabetics was restrictive diets that ended up starving patients to death as often as not. Like, if those research institutes has gotten firebombed repeatedly over the years, a lot more of society would probably find the notion of people who canāt eat sugar strange.
Exactly,
I hate the obvious parallels here.