There is a popular narrative about trans kids among anti-trans lobbyists that I bet most of you reading have heard: that they are new. That this generation is the first. That we are in uncharted territory and nobody knows what will happen. That the science isn't settled. That caution is warranted. That children can't possibly know.
Jules Gill-Peterson wrote an entire book proving that every word of that is a lie.
Histories of the Transgender Child, first published in 2018, is an academic monograph that should be mandatory reading for every provider working in gender-affirming care, every advocate defending the existence of trans children, and every person who has been told that what's happening now is unprecedented. It is not.
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