In the early1970s, navigating hormone therapy was like the wild west. Protocols? Nah. Treatment Guidelines? What are those? Endocrinologists? Who needs them when family doctors will do just nicely. In this essay I salute Dr.…
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Remembering Angela Douglas
In 1973, I became the Philadelphia Director of the Transsexual Action Organization, a group created by the famous (infamous?) Angela Douglas. She was without a doubt one of the most fascinating, frustrating, and infuriating people…
Yonkers: The SRS Capital of the East Coast in the 1970s
I visited Yonkers Professional Hospital in 1976 and again in 1980 for surgical procedures by Dr. David R. Wesser. After many of the university-based gender identity clinics of the 1960s closed, the work was taken…