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By Jules Gill-Peterson,
Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh
In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and openly during her childhood.
She had dropped out of high school and she was determined to get out of Missouri as soon as she was old enough to pursue a career as a dancer. The doctor reportedly found “a large portion of circulating female hormone” in her body during his examination and suggested to Lane’s parents that he undertake an exploratory laparotomy – a surgery in which he would probe her internal organs in order to find out more about her endocrine system. But the appointment ended abruptly after her father refused the
Brenton John Alexander Mills was sentenced to serve 15 years for child abuse that resulted in the 2019 death of a two-year-old girl, the daughter of the woman he was living with in Havre de Grace at the time, according to prosecutors.