Author: G. Samantha Rosenthal

Samantha Rosenthal (she/they) is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Concentration at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She is the author of two books, Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, and Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World. They are co-founder of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, a nationally recognized queer public history initiative. Her work has received awards and recognition from the National Council on Public History, the Oral History Association, the Committee on LGBT History, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Working Class Studies Association.

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Gender-affirming Care Has A Long History In The U.S.—And Not Just For Transgender People

“When politicians today refer to gender-affirming care as new, ‘untested’ or ‘experimental,’ they ignore the long history of transgender medicine in the United States,” G. Samantha Rosenthal writes. “It’s been nearly 60 years since the first transgender medical clinic opened in the U.S.”

March 28, 2023

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Trans People Have Long History in South—But Politicians Ignore It

When G. Samantha Rosenthal first moved to the South in 2015, she expected to find a hostile environment for her transition. Instead, she met trans people of all ages who prove there is nothing new about being transgender in southwest Virginia. Yet this remarkable history is all but forgotten, she writes.

January 6, 2022

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