Cam Cannon

“Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States” is a social, cultural, and legal history of diagnostic criteria and treatment protocols for accessing gender-affirming care in the United States from the 1970s to the present. Unlike existing histories on the subject, “Standard” pays equal attention to the medical establishment responsible for conceptualizing and disseminating these guidelines, the transgender activists who have variously resisted, embraced, and attempted to influence these guidelines, and the micro and macro legal and institutional processes by which these guidelines have become embedded in US American social life.