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David Oliver Cauldwell, MD & Sc.D, (17 June 1897 – 30 August 1959) was a prolific and pioneering sexologist, who has been claimed to have coined the term “transsexual”[1][2] (though there is a prior claim for Hirschfeld[3]), and many of whose monographs on sex, psychology, or health were published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius in such forms as Little Blue Books. Doctor of Medicine ( MD or MD, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor meaning "Teacher of Medicine" is a doctoral DSc ScD SD, or DrSc are common abbreviations for the Latin Scientiæ Doctor, meaning Doctor of Science. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sexology is the study of sexual interests behavior and function Transsexualism is a condition in which a person identifies with a physical Sex different from the one with which they were born Magnus Hirschfeld ( May 14, 1868 - May 14, 1935) was a German- Jewish physician sex researcher, and early Gay rights E Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (1889–1951 was an American Social reformer and publisher. Little Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard Kansas (1919-1978

Cauldwell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a surgeon. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Cauldwell reports himself as from childhood having had a special interest in sexual anatomy. He studied medicine at the Chester College of Medicine and Surgery (later merged with Loyola University Chicago) and at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational Jesuit university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College The National Autonomous University of Mexico (in Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM) is a Public university based After several years as a private general practitioner, Cauldwell became an Associate Medical Officer of the Department of War, and as a contract surgeon for the Army, and became a neuro-psychiatrist for the Department of War. A general practitioner, or GP is a medical practitioner who provides Primary care and specializes in Family medicine. The United States Department of War, sometimes also called the War Office, was the department of the United States government 's executive branch In Medicine, a surgeon is a person who performs Surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive Medical treatment that involves the cutting of a The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric In 1945, Cauldwell ended active practice to become a writer on topics of health, notably sexology. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar

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Cauldwell and transsexualism

Although the German term “Transsexualismus” was introduced by Hirschfeld in 1923,[3] Cauldwell appears to be the first to use the term in direct reference to those who desired a change of physiological sex. [4]

Cauldwell distinguished “biological sex” from “psychological sex”, and saw the latter as determined by social conditioning. He denied that there were modes of thinking intrinsically linked to male or female biology. Primarily because of this view of gender as plastic, and secondarily because of the limitations of medical science, he regarded sex reassignment surgery as an unacceptable response to transsexualism, and instead advocated that it be treated as a mental disorder (though he advocated acceptance of homosexualism and of transvestism). [4]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ anonymous. “Editorial”, The International Journal of Transgenderism v5 (2001) #2 (April-June).
  2. ^ Ekins, Richard; and Dave King. “Pioneers of Transgendering: The Popular Sexology of David O. Cauldwell”, The International Journal of Transgenderism v5 (2001) #2 (April-June).
  3. ^ a b Hirschfeld, Magnus; “Die intersexuelle Konstitution” in Jarhbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen 1923. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
  4. ^ a b Meyerowitz, Joanne Jay; How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.

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Works

[The titles of the Haldeman-Julius publications were chosen by or at the insistence of Haldeman-Julius, to provoke sales. ]

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