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A secret trial that transformed transgender rights

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What Makes People Trans or Gay?

The criminal law amendment act in 19 67 marked a partial decriminalization of gay men and heralded a new social exclusion of transpeople. The big arguing point in medicine was over eteology, what makes people trans or gay? They said there was a gender gate swinging to and fro somewhere in every one, and that you had to get through it. And they could er for carry out this reparative therapy that would kind of open the gate again and push you through and bring you out on the right side. So if you'd been assigned mail birth, than you would now be male and masculine and hetrosexual and female equivalently.

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