This is the very first episode of the six-part podcast series network Science In Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows, from our new podcast series network Cursed Media. 

Science in Transition is an investigation into the intellectual origins of the contemporary right wing backlash against transgender acceptance. Through six deeply-researched episodes, hosts Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows unearth a bizarre coalition of well-meaning clinicians, aristocratic sexologists, militant feminists, right-wing culture warriors, headline-chasing journalists, and conservative politicians.

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Science In Transition Episode 1: Birth of the Clinic

As various fields in the medical sciences advance during the interwar period, doctors confront a problem: the treatment of adults who desire to change their sex. While many clinicians propose psychotherapy, a few dotted across the Western world have a different idea: use newly synthesized hormones and surgical procedures to treat them. Liv and Spencer dig into the early decades of the Western gender clinic, its treatment of gender-variant and intersex children, and the crusaders who sought to morally mandate the transsexual out of existence.

A full list of sources for the entire series will be available soon; for further reading, please consult:

Florence Ashley, ““Richard Green wasn’t an ally to trans communities: a controversial legacy” ⁠https://medium.com/@florence.ashley/richard-green-wasnt-an-ally-to-trans-communities-a-controversial-legacy-e6d9a485f66e⁠ 

Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl

Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History Of Transsexuality In The United States 

Karl Bryant, “Making Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood: Historical Lessons for 
Contemporary Debates”

Lisa Downing, Iain Morland, and Nikki Sullivan, Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts

Melanie Fritz and Nat Mulkey, “The rise and fall of gender identity clinics in the 1960s and 1970s” ⁠https://archive.is/7cNQr⁠ 

Samantha Riedel, “Gen(d)erations: How Sandy Stone “Struck Back” Against Transmisogyny” ⁠https://www.them.us/story/genderations-sandy-stone⁠ 

Stacey D. Jackson-Roberts, “Pushed to the edge: the treatment of transsexuals through time:
a behavioral discourse analysis of the diagnostic and treatment protocols for transsexuals and the implications for contemporary social work practice” ⁠https://scholarworks.smith.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2037&context=theses⁠ 


Science In Transition Episode 1: Birth of The Clinic | from Cursed Media

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Soralia - structures on a lichen that produce asexual spores containing both the photobiont & mycobiont.

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