Transgender people and their birth certificates in US history: new research using digital methods more
Prepared remarks for roundtable “New Approaches to Transgender History/ies,” a state-of-the-field session at 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. About 1500 words.
Summarizes preliminary research findings on history of birth certificate amendment laws for US transsexuals; contextualizes these laws within the history of the US welfare state; discusses the increasing number of situations (since about 1910) which required US birthright citizens to prove their legal identities using a birth certificate.
The second half describes very briefly the digital research methods I used to reach these findings; I also raise questions about how we might better teach critical research approaches for use in transgender historical work. |
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