In their first monograph Stef Shuster offers us a bridge between the more thoroughly studied decades of the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary manifestation of transgender medicine in the era of evidence-based medicine. Much has changed since, and indeed many barriers to accessing trans-specific medicine have been lifted. However, some disputes that figure centrally in the US health system remain unresolved and continue to shape how trans people navigate the contemporary biomedical landscape. Shuster offers us a history of the recent past, and in many ways the present, to situate the ongoing turf wars between somatic and mental health clinicians, who have fought over the lives and bodies of trans people seeking any kind of health care, transition related or not. Trans Medicine unfolds in three parts that loosely follow the three sources of data on which Shuster's analyses rely. Through textual analysis of correspondence between Harry Benjamin and colleagues,...

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