To better understand what it means to be transgender in Alaska, I conducted a series of interviews.
Updated: 18 minutes agoRep. Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage, in the House Chamber at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on February 26, 2024.
: “When I started in this field, the data we had at the time in 2004 was from the treatment of intersex people — people with differences in sexual differentiation and attempts to manipulate gender identity in them — that data was strong enough to make the point that even if we don’t know much else about it, gender identity is clearly a part of people’s brains and must therefore be coded.
The proponents of the anti-transgender bills may not understand what transgender is. They may not believe it. But it’s been here since the beginning of time. You can find trans and gender diverse people back at the time of Jesus.”If an Inupiaq boy was born and the last person who died was his grandma, that boy is his grandma, that’s his name. That’s his gender. That’s his identity. And around puberty, he would transition to his adult identity. So, we have always been gender fluid.
I think the key points are the current guidelines by the current establishment medical organizations like the Endocrine Society and WPATH are very conservative, especially relating to youth for the reason that we depend on self-report, and we want to be very deliberative in our approach, and we do not advocate any medical treatment before puberty.
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