Please select your gender: From the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism

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Notes

1. The interviews that Gherovici quotes from are found in Lacan (1996) and Schneiderman (1980).

2. Gherovici reports that her case study presentations always make use of her analysands’ preferred gender pronouns (p. 190).

3. These include Jorgensen's Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography (1967), Renée Richards’ Second serve (1983) and No way Renée: The second half of my notorious life (2007), Jan Morris’ Conundrum (1986), Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing: A memoir (1999), Max Valerio's The testosterone files: My hormonal and social transformation from female to male (2006), and Dhillon Khosla's Both sides now: One man's journey through womanhood (2006).