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Historian Explains How Scandinavia Spent A Century Sorting This Out

Hi everybody, I am Ketil Slagstad, a historian of medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and author of Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (Uni. Chicago Press, 2025). The book traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia from the 1920s to the turn…

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