Ira Pauly and transsexualism |
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Ira Basil Pauly (born 1931) is an American psychiatrist best known for his influential work on transsexualism with endocrinologist Harry Benjamin.
Pauly stands as a sort of opposite of Paul McHugh, both of whom were faculty at University of Oregon Medical School in the 1960’s, when Pauly began writing and speaking about treatment of transsexualism. He came around on sex reassignment in 1961 “after soul-searching deliberation.” Pauly noted that both transsexualism and abortion were “sex and tabooed topics” that caused strong responses. Pauly is noted for undertaking the first global review of the published outcome data on transsexualism in 1965. In the mid-1960s, he began collaborating with Benjamin, who cited Pauly’s work in The Transsexual Phenomenon. The two later worked to popularize their research in the lay press.
McHugh would become dean of the University of Oregon Medical School before leaving to close down gender services at Johns Hopkins. McHugh has continued to try to control what other people do to their bodies ever since, where Pauly (who retired in 1994) will be remembered as one of the progressive pioneers in providing trans health services.
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