is not the best response to gender dysphoria.29 The year 1979 also saw the publication of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire, the most well-known feminist critique of transsexuality.30 Raymond challenged both the medical/psychiatric approach to transsexualism as a disease and transitioning as its cure. There is broad agreement that the 1980s saw a significant conservative cultural adjustment to America. This cultural shift, which began in the late ’70s and extended through the ’80s, brought