Join us in our conversation with medical student Walker Magrath about his recent work as a scholarly concentrator in the history of medicine. In 2022, Walker published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine titled “The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic.” In this episode, we discuss the history of this gender-affirming surgery clinic here at Johns Hopkins, how studying the medical humanities and medical history can improve medical education and practice, and the continued struggle for equity in LGBTQIA+ healthcare. Thanks for listening! 

SOURCES, GROUPS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Jeremy Greene 

Gay Men’s Health Crisis  

Charalampos Siotos, et al., “Origins of Gender Affirmation Surgery: The History of the First Gender Identity Clinic in the United States at Johns Hopkins” (2019) 

Jon K. Meyer, MD; Donna J. Reter, “Sex Reassignment: Follow Up ” (1979)  

Theresa Gaffney, “‘History is repeating itself’: The story of the nation’s first clinic for gender-affirming surgery” (2022) 

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH (Harvard)  

Jules Gill-Peterson