Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Dr. Katie Spencer
Katie Spencer is a white cisgender woman who grew up in Farmington, Missouri. At the time of this oral history, Spencer was living in Minnesota and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality. In this oral history, Spencer speaks at length about her childhood, her time in college, and her experiences with femininity. Spencer also talks at length about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder and Gender Dysphoria, heteronormativity, and gatekeeping within the medical and psychological fields. She also talks extensively about Harry Benjamin’s Standards of Care, The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, pathologization, and clinics that support trans people in the Twin Cities.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 2801pg509
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Spencer, Katie
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Feb. 29, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Deb Thorp
Eli Colman
Harry Benjamin Standards of Care
Keith Ellison
OutFront Minnesota
Park Nicollet
Riki Wilchins
Roxanne Anderson
Transgender Health Action Coalition
Transsexual Menace
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
Xavier Schmidt
- Places
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Minnesota
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Hennepin County
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City of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
Wisconsin > Dane County > City of Madison > Madison
Missouri > Boone County > Columbia Township > Columbia
Missouri > Saint Francois > Saint Francois Township > Farmington
Missouri > Cape Girardeau > Cape Girardeau Township
- Topic(s)
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Activism
Activists
Assigned gender
Coming out
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Education
Feminism
Femmes
Gender diversity
Gender dysphoria
Gender realignment surgery
Health
Hormone therapy
LGBTI community
Medical care
Medicalisation
Middle West
Misogyny
Privilege (Social psychology)
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Race
Racism
Sexism
Social movements
Transgender people
Transphobia
Whites--Race identity
Work
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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In copyright
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