tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post9142461704221016800..comments2024-03-25T14:26:47.657-04:00Comments on A Gender Variance Who's Who: Alan Lucill Hart (1890 - 1962) doctor, roentgenologist, novelist.Zagriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15124379637664963835noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-54136364576308874542008-11-01T14:45:00.000-04:002008-11-01T14:45:00.000-04:00Hi Ziagra, This is not on the Wikipedia page, but ...Hi Ziagra, <BR/><BR/>This is not on the Wikipedia page, but is the second of two answers to your last two questions... The Availability of Hormones...<BR/><BR/>Male Hormones were already being extracted and condensed in 1907 by one of the Staff at the Berlin Scientific Humanitarian Committee that Hirschfeld founded in 1897, from Urin collected for experimental purposes from all the soldiers of all the barracks around Berlin. <BR/><BR/>They condensed results were tested and found to help men with low own testosterone levels or to Help finalise the much needed growth of beards for men who had been castrated by accident or during war, etc., while still young. <BR/><BR/>I am sure Hirschfeld did experiments with Transmen and what he called female born "determined Transvestites" (transsexuals before he coined the word in 1926) to see if they too would grow facial hair and deepend voice, then one of his studies in the other direction was to see why some women suffered from male pattern baldness or excessive facial hair. <BR/><BR/>However these were not very safe hormones, then the strengths varied and they were rife with Sexual and other sicknesses.<BR/><BR/>After WW1 the experiments continued and 1922 the first synthesized male hormones were produced and tested. By 1930 the Insitute made a lot of money selling "Titus Pearls" <BR/><BR/>These Synthetic male Hormones were off the market by 1933 due to the Nazis dislike of anything to do with Hirsfeld or Sex, and only after WW2 did production restart, and that was the time Hart first got them.<BR/><BR/>The isolation of female hormones (from females and later from pregnant Horses Urine) took place in the 1920s and synthetic ones also appeared in Germany just after the end of WW2. <BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/><BR/>PetraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-64111960392040462762008-11-01T14:14:00.000-04:002008-11-01T14:14:00.000-04:00Hi Ziagra, Have done more research and added more ...Hi Ziagra, <BR/><BR/>Have done more research and added more about him to the Wikipedia page, but here the key data that I found that also the first of two answers to your last two questions... The Operation... <BR/><BR/>Hart attended Albany College (now Lewis & Clark College) and Stanford University. (S)he graduated from Albany College in 1912, and in 1917 obtained a Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Oregon Medical Department in Portland (now Oregon Health & Science University). He was deeply unhappy that it was issued in his female name, making his ability to use it in any future life where they may seek confirmation of its authenticity virtually useless. So he had to start again and work his way up, first in a hospital, then as a country doctor. Despite that since he was the only "woman" in the class and took top academic honors, he could claim the female name was a clerical error "Alberta L. Hart" instead of "Albert L. Hart" and hope it would be believed. College records show that at least one of the senior staff was sympathetic to his plight, as his Index card entry recording his graduation calls him "Hart, Lucille (aka Robert L.), M.D." but anyone (such as a new employer) checking up on him would have to ask for the proof of graduation citing the female name "Hart, Lucille" or be (wrongly) told "no record could be found!" <BR/><BR/>From the graduation details for "Hart, Lucille (aka Robert L.), M.D." Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives BIOGRAPHICAL FILES in Box 27 of the Licenses, Degrees, and Certificates Collection<BR/><BR/>After graduation he worked for a short while (as a woman) at a Red Cross hospital in Philadelphia, but the prospect of being a woman for the rest of his life nearly drove him to suicide and despair.<BR/><BR/>Upon reaching mature, educated adulthood, he took steps, including seeking psychiatric counseling and radical surgery - as transsexual-people do today - to be able to live his life as a man. Dr. Joshua Gilbert, who assisted Hart with his transition, published Hart's case in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders in 1920, but kept his patient's identity a secret, referring instead to "H".<BR/><BR/>Psychiatry was a relatively new science, and Hart's was the second "known" FTM case recorded in the 20th century medical literature, (a similar Female to Male Transsexual case with surgical intervention after 1906 psychological evaluation had occurred in Germany in 1910 in the Dresden Woman's Health Clinic.<BR/><BR/>Magnus Hirschfeld - drei Fälle irrtümlicher Geschlechtsbestimmung - 1906<BR/><BR/>Before that Hirschfeld had also treated a female bodied hermaphrodite Martha Baer (Born May 20. 1885), who became Karl Baer (Pseudonym N.O. Body (nobody) of the 1907 book and 1919 made silent film) by the surgical removal of the Womb in December 1906<BR/><BR/>See Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years under this link... <BR/>http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/14173.html<BR/><BR/>In 1906 new ground was broke when he (Magnus Hirschfeld) made an alliance of three different competences, Hirschfeld (Covering Psychoanalysis and Medical Diagnosis) working together with the Interior Minister, (Legal Issues such as correcting Birth Certificates and issuing new Identity Documents) and Surgeons (Ethical and Procedural) to lay down rules to perform the alteration of an otherwise healthy female body and today still used basic rules for diagnosis, real life test, carry letter's or support for new Identity documents (and was taken up by Harry Benjamin after Hirschfeld and Benjamin met in Berlin in 1907).<BR/><BR/>In January 1907 the German court ordered the correction of a female name and sex to a new male name and sex based on a Hysterectomy performed in December 1906 on Karl Baer (1885 - 1952)<BR/><BR/>See<BR/>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_M._Baer<BR/>for the write up in German and a copy of the certified copy of the registry change that allowed him (Karl Baer) to get his new Birth Certificate<BR/><BR/>It is likely that Hart had heard or read of the German cases and as a doctor close to qualifying, used it to get that what he needed based on this new logical approach. Then Hart's medical knowledge was certainly enough that he could have simulated normal female reasons for getting a hysterectomy, but he chose to follow the honest path shown by Magnus Hirschfeld in that earlier case. If he could show a medical diagnosis and proof of some dreadful mistake in his body at birth, could now be corrected, he could legally become a man, and that documented proof was very important to him, then he wanted to succeed as a man and also to marry as one.<BR/><BR/>Alan Hart had his sex change Surgery in the University of Oregon Medical School in 1917 who in their library records proudly boast "One of the earliest recorded instances of a sex change operation in America was actually performed here at the University of Oregon Medical School."<BR/><BR/>from a September 1993 published two-part series in "the Alternative Connection" OHSU newspaper.<BR/>http://www.ohsu.edu/library/<BR/><BR/>...and explains "Gilbert was leery of such a radical surgery, and Hart supplied the reasons to convince him: relief of painful menstruation and the argument from eugenics (a person with "abnormal inversion" should be sterilized).<BR/><BR/> Gilbert finally agreed; the surgery was performed; and Alan Lucille Hart is listed as an alum in the 1951 Alumni Directory." <BR/>http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ & OHSU/University of Oregon Medical School historic Records<BR/>...and cross-citing their copy of the book of How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States / Joanne Meyerowitz.)<BR/><BR/>The Fertility Clinic of the OHSU Wrote in September 2006 under the title "Early controversy" the following "Controversy over fertility treatments and their by-products is a feature of contemporary society; certainly, the OHSU Fertility Clinic has been much in the local news of late. Medical topics in reproductive health and sexuality are often touchy subjects, and few treatments are as emotionally and culturally charged as sex change operations. One of the earliest recorded instances of a sex change operation in America was actually performed here at the University of Oregon Medical School." <BR/><BR/>OHSU Fertility Clinic News (September 2006) in the University of Oregon Medical School Library<BR/><BR/>Dr. Joshua Gilbert published Alan's case in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders in 1920. Alan, born as Alberta Lucille Hart, described identifying as a boy from earliest memory. Dr. Gilbert wrote, "...from a sociological and psychological standpoint she is a man." He transitioned in 1917 after graduating from medical school in Portland, Oregon. He had his surgery in December 1917 to January 1918 (during his Christmas vacation) and changed his name. Soon after, (in February 1918) he, now as a man, married his first wife Inez Stark (who he divorced in 1924) moving with her to Gardiner Oregon, started his own medical practice.<BR/><BR/>Hart was whenever he was allowed (such as on his Grandfather's farm) a tomboy and called himself and expected and wanted others around him to call him Robert Allen, from "Robert Allen Bamford, Jr." the name he had given himself (Bamford stemming from his Mother's maiden name).<BR/><BR/>He was at first a reluctant student, not wishing to be thrown into dresses and carry a hairstyle befitting a Victorian young lady to go to school. Like many transsexual children, he threw himself into the work to keep his brain distracted from daydreams about being a man and succeeded. His academic achievements were so good, that he soon graduated and was able to enter as one of the first ladies ever, medical school.<BR/><BR/>During medical school he learned biology and how his ovaries would create not only monthly periods but also secondary sexual characteristics such as child-bearing hip development and breast growth.<BR/> <BR/>Most Transmen loath this concept and do all they can to delay it or suppress it.<BR/><BR/>While there is not any written evidence that Hart experimented with medication used at the time to delay puberty (early promiscuity and too early sexual attractiveness in a young aged female) he certainly knew of such things and also determined himself to be rid of his Ovaries as soon as possible.<BR/><BR/>He had requested to Graduate as a man, but this was turned down, despite asking for mail from home to be addressed to him via a C/O address as Master Robert Hart, as he was legally female, and thus only able to finish medical school with a female diploma, making his finding work later (particularly in the beginning) difficult. It also resulted in his being outed at times by jealous colleagues digging up dirt on him. The Records of the Library for the year he graduated show however he was openly living as a man at that time, Naming him as "Hart, Lucille (aka Robert L.), M.D." <BR/><BR/>From the Card index original graduation details for "Hart, Lucille (aka Robert L.), M.D." Oregon Health & Science University Historical Collections & Archives BIOGRAPHICAL FILES in Box 27 of the Licenses, Degrees, and Certificates Collection<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/><BR/>PetraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com