6: Walker Magrath - on the nation's first gender-affirming surgery clinic

For the Medical Record

Join us in our conversation with medical student Walker Magrath about his recent work as a scholarly concentrator in the history of medicine. In 2022, Walker published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine titled “The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic.” In this episode, we discuss the history of this gender-affirming surgery clinic here at Johns Hopkins, how studying the medical humanities and medical history can improve medical education and practice, and the continued struggle for equity in LGBTQIA+ healthcare. Thanks for listening!

SOURCES, GROUPS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED
Jeremy Greene
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Charalampos Siotos, et al., “Origins of Gender Affirmation Surgery: The History of the First Gender Identity Clinic in the United States at Johns Hopkins” (2019)
Jon K. Meyer, MD; Donna J. Reter, “Sex Reassignment: Follow Up ” (1979)
Theresa Gaffney, “‘History is repeating itself’: The story of the nation’s first clinic for gender-affirming surgery” (2022)
Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH (Harvard)
Jules Gill-Peterson