Ketil Slagstad
@slagstadk.bsky.social
physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
Karl Kahlbaums Nosologie war für Emil Kraepelin von großer Bedeutung, und daher ist es eine besondere Freude, in der Bibliothek auf sein Originalexemplar zu stoßen.
January 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Karl Kahlbaums Nosologie war für Emil Kraepelin von großer Bedeutung, und daher ist es eine besondere Freude, in der Bibliothek auf sein Originalexemplar zu stoßen.
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An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.
Here is as gift link.
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Here is as gift link.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:52 AM
An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.
Here is as gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Here is as gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
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"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
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Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
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I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner.
www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/gjenno...
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Det var en glede å snakke med Sarah von Essen for @weekendavisen.dk om min nye bok og den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.
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Transmedicin. Det var ikke velfærdsstatens frisind, der tidligt gav transpersoner mulighed for at få kønsskifteoperationer – det var viljen til at regulere individet. Medicinhistoriker Ketil Slagstad ...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Det var en glede å snakke med Sarah von Essen for @weekendavisen.dk om min nye bok og den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.
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Ny utgave av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift er nå publisert!
Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA.
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Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA.
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Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift | Volume 42 | Issue 4 | Table of Contents
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December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Ny utgave av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift er nå publisert!
Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA.
www.scup.com/toc/nnt/42/4
Rita Augestad Knudsen og Ole Martin Stormoen skriver om risikovurderinger for terrorisme, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad analyserer framveksten av "de nye småbrukerne", og Jan Grue beretter fra et forskningsopphold i USA.
www.scup.com/toc/nnt/42/4
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Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
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Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
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If you need a manuscript copy edited or proofread, I highly recommend the services of @emilyherring.bsky.social. I just received an edited manuscript back, and I'm very pleased with the level of detail and her excellent suggestions!
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you need a manuscript copy edited or proofread, I highly recommend the services of @emilyherring.bsky.social. I just received an edited manuscript back, and I'm very pleased with the level of detail and her excellent suggestions!
"Genetic determinism is one of those one-single-technofix-will-solve-everything ideas that visionaries can fall prey to, and the history of genetics is lousy with hereditarians promising to end disease, make us smarter and better our society."
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Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Genetic determinism is one of those one-single-technofix-will-solve-everything ideas that visionaries can fall prey to, and the history of genetics is lousy with hereditarians promising to end disease, make us smarter and better our society."
@nccomfort.bsky.social
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@nccomfort.bsky.social
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Om du er i Trondheim i kveld 10.12 (kl. 19.00) eller i Bergen i morgen (kl. 17.00), kom forbi på boksamtale om den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.
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Ketil Slagstad: Standardizing Sex - A History of Trans Medicine
Event in Trondheim, Norway by Litteraturhuset i Trondheim on Monday, November 10 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Om du er i Trondheim i kveld 10.12 (kl. 19.00) eller i Bergen i morgen (kl. 17.00), kom forbi på boksamtale om den skandinaviske transmedisinske historien.
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I wrote a little about my three favorite books of the year, including @slagstadk.bsky.social's "Standardizing Sex" for the book review site Shepherd. Congratulations to Dr. Slagstad on such a deeply researched and well-argued book. 📚
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Want to know Donna J. Drucker's Top 3 Books of 2025?
Donna's top 3 reads of 2025 include Standardizing Sex and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
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November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I wrote a little about my three favorite books of the year, including @slagstadk.bsky.social's "Standardizing Sex" for the book review site Shepherd. Congratulations to Dr. Slagstad on such a deeply researched and well-argued book. 📚
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I'm thrilled and extremely grateful to Elizabeth Reis for her thorough review of my book in Annals of Science, which concludes with the following words:
"Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia,
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"Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia,
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Standardizing Sex: a history of trans medicine
Published in Annals of Science (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm thrilled and extremely grateful to Elizabeth Reis for her thorough review of my book in Annals of Science, which concludes with the following words:
"Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia,
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Standardizing Sex brilliantly exposes how cultural context and social anxieties in Scandinavia,
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#historians I’ve decided to bring my archival skills into the 21st century. I know, I know… I’m still a paper kinda gal at heart! What are you all using for digitally organizing photos of archival materials—especiallysoftware that allows for adding notes? #archive #primarysource #digital
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#historians I’ve decided to bring my archival skills into the 21st century. I know, I know… I’m still a paper kinda gal at heart! What are you all using for digitally organizing photos of archival materials—especiallysoftware that allows for adding notes? #archive #primarysource #digital
I'm honored by this incredibly generous and thoughtful review of my book "Standardizing Sex" by Os Keyes.
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@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
Ketil Slagstad, Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine
When historians of trans medicine discuss Scandinavia, it is too often in the form of endcaps: as the place where Christine Jorgensen first received surgic
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October 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I'm honored by this incredibly generous and thoughtful review of my book "Standardizing Sex" by Os Keyes.
academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
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@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
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Eg hadde gleda av å intervjua Ketil Slagstad om den nye boka hans "Standardizing sex". Interessant fyr snakkar om interessante ting! Kva meir vil de ha frå eit intervju?
(+) Ny bok om transhistorie: – Skandinavia har spela ei stor rolle
Lege og forfattar Ketil Slagstad skildrar i ny bok utviklinga i kjønnsbekreftande behandling frå den spede byrjinga i Berlin under Weimar-republikken, til den særs spesialiserte greina av medisin det ...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Eg hadde gleda av å intervjua Ketil Slagstad om den nye boka hans "Standardizing sex". Interessant fyr snakkar om interessante ting! Kva meir vil de ha frå eit intervju?
Wir freuen uns auf eine Reihe spannender Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Forschung und Lehre des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik der Medizin, das jeden zweiten Dienstag um 11 Uhr stattfindet. Kommen Sie gerne vorbei!
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Kolloquium Forschung und Lehre: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Wir freuen uns auf eine Reihe spannender Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Forschung und Lehre des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik der Medizin, das jeden zweiten Dienstag um 11 Uhr stattfindet. Kommen Sie gerne vorbei!
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October 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/
Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Staten og Legeforeningen bør be om unnskyldning for overgrepene begått mot transpersoner. Folk som ble tvunget til kastrering for å skifte juridisk kjønn, må få oppreisning. I boka «Standardizing Sex» viser jeg at staten vel vitende ofret folks reproduktive helse for å beskytte en binær kjønnsnorm.
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Dette meiner eg er eit viktig forskingsetisk perspektiv frå @slagstadk.bsky.social (2025, s. 18).
October 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Dette meiner eg er eit viktig forskingsetisk perspektiv frå @slagstadk.bsky.social (2025, s. 18).
Ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Praxis der erzwungenen Sterilisation von trans* Menschen. Diese Praxis wurde in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern eingeführt und erst in den 2010er Jahren abgeschafft.
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Trans Personen in Europa: Eingriff in die Menschenwürde
Trans Personen mussten sich lange Zeit sterilisieren lassen, wenn sie ihr Geschlecht offiziell ändern wollten. Die emotionalen Folgen sind verheerend.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Praxis der erzwungenen Sterilisation von trans* Menschen. Diese Praxis wurde in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern eingeführt und erst in den 2010er Jahren abgeschafft.
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Jeg kommer på en liten norgesturné med den nye boka mi "Standardizing Sex"
- Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim)
- Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI
Kom, kom!
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- Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim)
- Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI
Kom, kom!
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Ketil Slagstad: Standardizing Sex - A History of Trans Medicine - Litteraturhuset i Trondheim
Den skandinaviske historien er spesiell i det den belyser den sentrale rollen staten har spilt i regulering og standardisering av […]
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September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jeg kommer på en liten norgesturné med den nye boka mi "Standardizing Sex"
- Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim)
- Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI
Kom, kom!
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
- Trondheim 10. november med Eir-Anne Edgar (NTNU) og Andreas Krogstad (Skeive Studenter Trondheim)
- Bergen 11. november i samarbeid med Skeivt arkiv og PKI
Kom, kom!
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
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next week at FU:
Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context
w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others
info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context
w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others
info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
September 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
next week at FU:
Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context
w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others
info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context
w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others
info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
We have a winner: @misstillit.bsky.social! Congratulations! Thank you all for taking part in the lottery. For each participant, I will donate the value of one copy of the book to Casa Kuà, a Berlin organization by and for trans* and non binary BIPoCs to make healthcare more accessible. casa-kua.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We have a winner: @misstillit.bsky.social! Congratulations! Thank you all for taking part in the lottery. For each participant, I will donate the value of one copy of the book to Casa Kuà, a Berlin organization by and for trans* and non binary BIPoCs to make healthcare more accessible. casa-kua.com