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Gender non-conforming person confined to Bellevue Hospital for wearing the "wrong" clothes.

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This person is documented as being arrested and admitted to the hospital simply for "wearing women’s clothing on a body the law deemed male" (Sears, 2023). This is just one example of the many gender non-conforming people who are confined in psychiatric institutions during this era for their gender expression.