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.
Arranged in 6 series.
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.
Access to portions of the collection is restricted. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.
Any references to patients in publications must use the preferred pseudonyms listed within the patient index.
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.
Patient records for the UW Gender Identity Clinic may be available through UW Medical Records.
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.
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."
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.
Diane K. Pierce's Doctoral Thesis for Rutgers University titled "The Adjustment of Female Transsexuals Following Surgical and Hormonal Sex Reassignment"
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"
Newspaper articles on the Gender Identity Clinic and their sex-conversion work
Correspondence related to the Gender Identity Clinic or people involved with the Clinic.
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
Correspondence with and regarding Jennifer James, Herbert S. Ripley, Richard M. Yarvis, Julian Ansell, and other individuals involved with the Gender Identity Clinic
Memos from Joan Martin and listed faculty research interests for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Email correspondence between from Os Keyes, J. William McRoberts, and Rich Kirkpatrick
Correspondence and court cases affiliated with the Gender Identity Clinic.
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.
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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.
Lawsuit regarding financial misconduct with clinic funds
Lawsuit against a physician of the Gender Identity Clinic for medical malpractice
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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.
Materials identifying patients from the Gender Identity Clinic
Provisional index of patients reconstructed by Keyes
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Includes name change forms, marriage documents, correspondence, and publications relating to or by patients of the clinic or prospective patients
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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.
Photographs, teaching slides, and videos and accompanying transcripts.
Photograph taken at the University of Washington. Text with photograph states, "TRANSVESTISM, Genetic female living as a male; Normal female genitalia, Reduction mammoplasty"
Original negatives can be found in box 5 of collection 89-053
Teaching slides, figures and diagrams, and images of surgical procedures.
These digital files are reproductions of negatives from Accession No. 89-053 Box 5. Reproductions were curtesy of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections.
Audio and video files containing the copies of the Erikson Education Foundation meeting, the Okura video, and the interviews Keyes completed
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Film documents the interview and surgical processes for the clinic
These digital files are reproductions of the original 16 mm film Reel #114 from Accession No. 94-003.
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Transcript for the clinic's documentary film on transgender surgery; Reel 5
Transcript for the clinic's documentary film on transgender surgery; Reel 6
Transcript for the clinic's documentary film on transgender surgery; Reel 5
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Hampson and people working at other Gender Identity Clinics within the United States share their experiences working with transgender patients
The original recording of this meeting can be found at the University of Southern California’s Reed L. Erickson papers (Collection 2010-001). A digital copy of the recording is available at: https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-1582
Interview with a transsexual woman who lived in Eastern Washington completed by a graduate student of Gary Atkins for his book "Gay Seattle"
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Keyes interviews a nurse involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former gynecology surgeon involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former sociologist involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former anthropologist involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former psychiatry resident involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former patient of the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former medical student involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former secretary for John Hampson and John Carr
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Keyes interviews former psychiatrists involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former psychiatrist involved with the clinic
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Keyes interviews a former nurse involved with the clinic
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