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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 19h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Øystein @skaar.net · 6d

Dette meiner eg er eit viktig forskingsetisk perspektiv frå @slagstadk.bsky.social (2025, s. 18).

The correspondence with research ethics committees indicates that the research committee system and the narrow focus on informed consent as defined in health research laws (like those in Norway) are not well suited to address structural power imbalances and social justice issues in research projects, or to respond to issues of structural inequality. Even if the denial of: access medical records is intended to protect the integrity of marginalized and stigmatized individuals, in effect the ethical research system risks perpetuating exclusionary and discriminatory practices by preventing silenced stories from being told, This makes it more difficult for minority groups today to take ownershıp of their own histories, and it makes it nearly impossible shed light on the misuse of power by hegemonic actors, be they physicians or authorities.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 9d

Sie basierte auf einer eugenischen Tradition und dem Ziel von Medizin und Staat, die binäre Geschlechternorm aufrechtzuerhalten. Darüber schreibe ich in meinem gerade erschienenen Buch „Standardizing Sex”.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....

Standardizing Sex

A history of trans medicine that uses Scandinavian sources to tell a global story. Standardizing Sex traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century, exploring the cons...

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 9d

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.

taz.de/Trans-Person...

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.

taz.de

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 12d

Herlig å feire bursdagen på transtoget! Jeg skal skåle for deg fra nord.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 12d

Til våren!

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 12d

Arrangementet i Bergen finner sted kl. 17.00 i Babelstuen, HF-biblioteket.

Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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 […]

litteraturhusetitrondheim.no

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 14d

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 14d

Så flott! Gratulerer, Bård.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 14d

the development of secondary sex characteristics. This decision violates the important principle of evidence-based medicine to include patients in the selection of outcomes and to select outcomes that are important to them.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 14d

vekt på utfallsmål som er viktigst for pasientene – har blitt avveket i utarbeidelsen av de systematiske oversiktene som la grunnlaget for beslutningen (mest kjent i Cass-rapporten). Vi har nå fått støtte for vårt argument fra nestor innen kunnskapsbasert medisin (EBM), Gordon Guyatt.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 18d

Last day to participate in the lottery. I announce the winner tomorrow. Repost and tag and win your copy to learn about how physicians and researchers have worked to protect a binary norm of sex by excluding non-binary people from medical trials since the 1960s.

Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24d

To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · 20d

New book in #histmed #histpsych #clairehilton

Book: Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline? Patients, policy and practice in public mental hospitals in England, 1918–1930, by Claire Hilton

Dear Hmadness readers, Claire Hilton has just published a new book entitled Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline? Patients, Policy and Practice in Public Mental Hospitals in England, 1918–1930. Yo…

historypsychiatry.com

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 21d

Curious to hear your thoughts! And you can still enter and give away a copy if you win. :)

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 21d

There is still time to enter the lottery. Win a free copy and find out how Christine Jorgensen tricked the eugenic sterilization laws to get surgery and learn about her plans to write a Scandinavian cookbook with recipes for smorgasbord and Danish open sandwiches. ⬇️

Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24d

To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24d

“The far-right AfD, now the 2nd largest party, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy that they are the product of incestuous unions between immigrants. Prejudice against disabled people & racial minorities is being whipped up once more.“

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24d

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’

Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany

In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24d

Hi Odd! Just meant to “@“ another person here to make more people aware of the book. :) Hope you’re doing good!

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24d

To celebrate the release of "Standardizing Sex," I'm giving away a free ebook. For a chance to win and learn about the myriad strategies the state has followed to standardize sex, share this post and tag someone in the comments. I'll announce the winner in a week.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 27d

Todd Sekuler and Agata Dziuban give a paper on The Politics of Absence, exemplified by the empty folder titled "Lesbians and AIDS" in a Berlin queer archive.

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 27d

Katerina Suverina opens the panel "Silences and Absences: HIV/AIDS at the Margins of Representation" at the The European Histories of HIV/AIDS Symposium in Copenhagen, by presenting on the challenges on archiving HIV and drug activism in post-Soviet spaces. #histmed

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Two persons standing behind a table on a podium and in front of a screen.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 28d

If you (or people you know) are interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoc in 2026, my research centre is offering three-week research fellowships for you to come here and develop your ideas.

More details are on our website - or get in touch with me.

🗃️

www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...

Calls and open positions

www.sdu.dk

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 28d

Danke sehr!

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