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Dayton/Hunt Collection on Transgender Medicine at the University of Washington, 1959-2024

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Keyes, Os
Title
Dayton/Hunt Collection on Transgender Medicine at the University of Washington
Dates
1959-2024 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.74 cubic feet (2 boxes included 2 flash drives)
Collection Number
6520 (Accession No. 6520-001)
Summary
Materials relating to the University of Washington Gender Identity Clinic
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access to portions of the collection is restricted. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

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Languages
English
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Historical Note

The Dayton/Hunt Collection on Transgender Medicine at the University of Washington is named in honor of Barbara Dayton, the first and only publicly known patient of the UW Gender Identity Clinic, and Dr. D. Daniel (Dan) Hunt, the last psychiatrist to engage with patients. Dr. Hunt also published multiple papers regarding the clinic in the years after its closing.

The University of Washington Gender Identity Clinic was an indirectly-NIH-funded program from approximately 1967-1972. Led by Dr. John Hampson, the clinic provided sex reassignment surgery to select candidates after an initial screening and interview process, primarily focusing on male-to-female procedures for transgender women. Dr. J. William (Bill) McRoberts was the main figure on the surgical team. The committee for the clinic was comprised of numerous individuals including anthropologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, and surgeons.

Administratively, the clinic was housed within Clinic 2 of the Department of Psychiatry (located in the “Coach House” building), and the Department of Urology. Ultimately, the formal research program behind the clinic ended in 1972, due to the departure and relocation of Dr. McRoberts; some small number of procedures continued to be performed on an ad-hoc basis until approximately 1980.

The original records for the clinic were lost or destroyed as years passed. The Dayton/Hunt Collection on Transgender Medicine at the University of Washington is a curated reconstruction of records pertaining to the UW Gender Identity Clinic from various archival collections and public records. The collection also includes retrospective reports on the clinic through interviews, correspondence, and written works created by Os Keyes.

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Content Description

Interviews and transcripts, human resource files, publications, court documents, correspondence, and teaching slides relating to the University of Washington Gender Identity Clinic and Os Keyes’s reconstruction of these records.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Any references to patients in publications must use the preferred pseudonyms listed within the patient index.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in 6 series.

  • Series 1, HR Files, 1959-1972
  • Series 2, Publications, 1962-1988
  • Series 3, Correspondence, 1969-2024
  • Series 4, Legal Material, 1972-1975
  • Series 5, Clinical Patient Material, 1969-1996
  • Series 6, Audio and Visual Material, 1971-2024

Acquisition Information

Materials collected or created by Os Keyes. Some materials are duplicates from other collections. Other materials are created and curated by Keyes to provide a more holistic view of the UW Gender Identity Clinic.

Os Keyes is a subject expert and scholar on the history of transgender medicine. They graduated with their PhD from the University of Washington’s Human-Centered Design and Engineering department in 2024. As part of their dissertation work, they went through numerous archives and public records to reconstruct the history of the UW Gender Identity Clinic.

Related Materials

Patient records for the UW Gender Identity Clinic may be available through UW Medical Records.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Series 1: HR Files, 1959-1972

    Human Resource documents for Professors at the University of Washington who were involved or worked at the Gender Identity Clinic. Personal Identifiable Information has been redacted. Fully redacted pages have been removed from the files.

    • Description: Hampson

      Position Action Forms (PAF), correspondence, Service Record Change forms, summaries of outside professional and public services, curriculum vitae, biographical profile, and related employment documents

      John L. Hampton was a Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Washington. He was the chair of the Gender Identity Committee, and had previously worked at Johns Hopkins, where - in collaboration with Joan Hampson and John Money - he was responsible for early work on the concept of "gender identity."

      Dates: 1959-1999
      Container: Box/Folder 1/1
      Location: Series 1: HR Files, 1959-1972
    • Description: McRoberts

      Biographical profile, report of resignation, correspondence, and summaries of outside professional and public services

      J. William McRoberts was an Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington, and subsequently Chair (and now Emeritus Professor) of Urology at the University of Kentucky. He was the primary surgeon for the trans women treated by the Clinic.

      Dates: 1966-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 1/2
      Location: Series 1: HR Files, 1959-1972

  • Series 2: Publications, 1962-1988

    • Description: Diane K. Pierce Thesis

      Diane K. Pierce's Doctoral Thesis for Rutgers University titled "The Adjustment of Female Transsexuals Following Surgical and Hormonal Sex Reassignment"

      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box/Folder 1/3
      Location: Series 2: Publications, 1962-1988
    • Description: Notable Works

      Includes J. William McRoberts's "Sex Conversion Surgery for Biological Male Transsexuals," Daniel Hunt and John L. Hampson's "Follow-Up of 17 Biological Make Transsexuals After Sex-Reassignment Surgery," D. Daniel Hunt, John E. Carr, and John L. Hampson's "Cognitive Correlates of Biologic Sex and Gender Identity in Transsexualism," Daniel Hunt's "Psychosocial Rating Format for the Evaluation of Results of Sex Reassignment Surgery," and J. William McRoberts's "Transsexual Surgery"

      Dates: 1980-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1/4
      Location: Series 2: Publications, 1962-1988
    • Description: Press

      Newspaper articles on the Gender Identity Clinic and their sex-conversion work

      Dates: 1962-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1/5
      Location: Series 2: Publications, 1962-1988

  • Series 3: Correspondence, 1969-2024

    Correspondence related to the Gender Identity Clinic or people involved with the Clinic.

    • Description: Clinical Research Center

      Correspondence with and around the Clinical Research Center - the University of Washington Hospital unit that hosted the Gender Identity Clinic - including the original IRB applications and minutes of the IRB committee's discussions and reviews

      Originates, in part, in Box 6 of accession 86-083

      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box/Folder 1/6
      Location: Series 3: Correspondence, 1969-2024
    • Description: External

      Correspondence with and regarding Jennifer James, Herbert S. Ripley, Richard M. Yarvis, Julian Ansell, and other individuals involved with the Gender Identity Clinic

      Dates: 1969-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Series 3: Correspondence, 1969-2024
    • Description: Internal

      Memos from Joan Martin and listed faculty research interests for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Series 3: Correspondence, 1969-2024
    • Description: Retrospective Research

      Email correspondence between from Os Keyes, J. William McRoberts, and Rich Kirkpatrick

      Dates: 2022-2024
      Container: Box/Folder 1/9
      Location: Series 3: Correspondence, 1969-2024

  • Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975

    Correspondence and court cases affiliated with the Gender Identity Clinic.

    • Description: Financial Misconduct

      Correspondence from Robert L. Van Citters to James W. Haviland and J. William McRoberts regarding a review on the Urologic Research Fund and to John W. Ensinck regarding a change in principal investigatorship, copies of checks, and a list of patients and the amount of money returned to them written by John L. Hampson and J. William McRoberts

      The Urological Research Fund was established by the Gender Identity Committee to support the Gender Identity Clinic patients. Some of these materials originate in (and were copied from) Box 4 of accession 88-070.

      Restricted

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 2/1
      Location: Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975
    • Description: Financial Misconduct (Redacted)

      Correspondence from Robert L. Van Citters to James W. Haviland and J. William McRoberts regarding a review on the Urologic Research Fund and to John W. Ensinck regarding a change in principal investigatorship, copies of checks, and a list of patients and the amount of money returned to them written by John L. Hampson and J. William McRoberts

      The Urological Research Fund was established by the Gender Identity Committee to support the Gender Identity Clinic patients. Some of these materials originate in (and were copied from) Box 4 of accession 88-070.

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 1/10
      Location: Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975
    • Description: University of Kentucky v. McRoberts Lawsuit

      Lawsuit regarding financial misconduct with clinic funds

      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2/2
      Location: Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975
    • Description: Patient Lawsuit
      2 folders

      Lawsuit against a physician of the Gender Identity Clinic for medical malpractice

      Restricted

      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 2/3 - 2/4
      Location: Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975
    • Description: Appraisal of Coach House Complex

      Appraisal for buildings 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8, 4700 Block 24th Avenue NE Seattle, Washington documented by Leslie W. Eastman Jr.

      The Gender Identity Clinic moved to the Coach House from the University of Washington Hospital Clinic Two around 1967.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/11
      Location: Series 4: Legal Material, 1972-1975

  • Series 5: Clinical Patient Material, 1969-1996

    Materials identifying patients from the Gender Identity Clinic

    • Description: Patient Index

      Provisional index of patients reconstructed by Keyes

      Restricted

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/5
      Location: Series 5: Clinical Patient Material, 1969-1996
    • Description: Patient Files
      10 folders

      Includes name change forms, marriage documents, correspondence, and publications relating to or by patients of the clinic or prospective patients

      Restricted

      Dates: 1970-1996
      Container: Box/Folder 2/6 - 2/15
      Location: Series 5: Clinical Patient Material, 1969-1996
    • Description: Example Medical Record

      Redacted example medical record file that provides the basic format used for the clinic

      This example record was created by Keyes for educational purposes and is not tied to any one patient.

      Dates: 1969-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 1/12
      Location: Series 5: Clinical Patient Material, 1969-1996

  • Series 6: Audio and Visual Material, 1971-2024

    Photographs, teaching slides, and videos and accompanying transcripts.

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)


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