Interview with Dr. Eli Coleman

Dr. Eli Coleman is a professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality, one of the first programs in the country of its kind, at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as well as the first endowed chair in sexual health at the University of Minnesota. Coleman describes his experience coming to work at the Program in Human Sexuality almost 40 years ago, the detailed history that goes along with it, and its purpose: providing care, as well as educating medical students and residents on transgender issues. In this history, Coleman describes changes, groundbreaking steps, and the importance of the University of Minnesota Medical School‚Äôs Program in Human Sexuality; as well as changes in World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, and the future of care for transgender people.

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Identifier: cv43nx00s
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Coleman, Eli
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 29, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Eli Coleman
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
University of Minnesota Medical School
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Topic(s): Care
Education
Educators
Gender realignment surgery
Health care
Occupations in health care and social care
Transitioning (Gender)
Youth
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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