Transgender

Timeline Snapshot I

• 1600s - Queen Christina of Sweden • 1700s - Molly Houses • 1942 - Michael Dillon mastectomy • 1946 - Dr. Harold Gillies & Michael Dillon sex

reassignment surgery• 1948 - Dr. Harry Benjamin & Dr. Alfred Kinsey

study transgender children.• 1952 - Christine Jorgensen’s gender reassignment

story makes news in the New York Daily News.

Timeline Snapshot II

• 1952 - April Ashley, English actress, is outted as a post-op transsexual.1966 - Dr. Harry Benjamin publishes The Transsexual Phenomenon.1969 - Stonewall Riots1979 - WPATH/HBIGDA publishes the first “Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People”.

Timeline Snapshot III

• 1990 - The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is established. 1993 - Brandon Teena, the subject of the book and movie, Boys Don’t Cry, is murdered.2001 - The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force established the Transgender Civil Rights Project to work for transgender equality.2002 - The Sylvia Rivera Law Project2002 - NEA adopts a resolution to protect LGBT students.

Timeline Snapshot IV

• 2009 - Matthew Shepard ActPending - The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Source: The Transgender Zone

History in Education- Sharon

• History and Traditions• Historical Experience• Cultural Impact on Students' Academic

Performance• Impact of Age & Development• Identification