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34 Issues L. & Med. 147 (2019)
Bringing Transparency to the Treatment of Transgender Persons

handle is hein.journals/ilmed34 and id is 147 raw text is: Bringing Transparency to the Treatment of Transgender Persons Quentin L. Van Meter, M.D., FC.P* Transgender is a term that was coined by Dr. Kenneth Zucker to describe the condition of a biologic male or female person who believes they are born into the body of the wrong sex. This term replaced the term transsexual which was regularly used by sexologists in the 1950's to refer to the same population. Dr. John Money, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins applied the word gender to describe the identity of the inner sexed self' of human beings. The word gender had previously been only a linguistic term used in languages to describe nouns as either masculine or feminine. Money theorized that human toddlers generally figured out their gender as early as 18 months.' Johns Hopkins was a major referral center for evaluation of infants and toddlers with disorders of sexual development (DSD), then referred to as hermaphrodites or pseudo-hermaphrodites, depending on whether they had germ cell lines of both sexes, and just one sex, respectively The incidence of trans- sexual patients was difficult to determine because of rejection of such persons by society Dr. Harry Benjamin, a family practitioner from New York City, medically treated a transsexual biologic male who assumed the identity of Christine Jorgenson. Christine traveled to Europe to have his surgical conversion which was eventually accomplished in Denmark.2 Benjamin, Money and Alfred Kinsey, an insect biolo- gist-turned-sex researcher from Indiana, were instrumental in creating the Sexual Revolution of the 1970's which sought to normalize a broad spectrum of previously deviant sexual behaviors. After Benjamin died, his colleagues established the Harry Benjamin Society to promote the normalcy of transsexualism. Today that organiza- tion is named The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). Establishing normalcy of a spectrum of sexual behaviors was the aim of the Kinsey Institute, which was founded in the 1940's.3 Money arrived at Johns Hop- kins in the 1950's and established the Psycho-hormonal Division of the Psychiatry * Van Meter Pediatric Endocrinology, PD. Disclosures: (1) Dr. Van Meter is a member of the speaker's bureau for the following companies: Endo, Abbvie, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer; and (2) Dr. Van Meter is involved in clinical trials with Versartis.

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