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Trans women educate early researchers on "transexuality."

1953

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After meeting human sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey at the University of California, San Francisco in 1948, trans community organizer Louise Lawrence introduces Kinsey to other trans women from across her community, who contribute their life stories to Kinsey's second book, Sexual Behavior of the Human Female.

Over the course of her life, Louise Lawrence also educates numerous other doctors about "transvestite" and "transexual" issues, including sexologist Dr. Harry Benjamin, who will go on to found of the organization that will become known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).